Why had the universities of Padua and Belogna been centres of
legal studies?
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The University of Padua (Italian: Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university[1] located in the city of Padua, Veneto, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law.[2] Padua is the second-oldest university in Italy and the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. In 2010 the university had approximately 65,000 students,[3] in 2016 was ranked "best university" among Italian institutions of higher education with more than 40,000 students, and in 2018 best Italian university according to ARWU ranking.
History
The university is conventionally said to have been founded in 1222 (which corresponds to the first time when the University is cited in a historical document as pre-existing, therefore it is quite certainly older) when a large group of students and professors left the University of Bologna in search of more academic freedom ('Libertas scholastica'). The first subjects to be taught were law and theology. The curriculum expanded rapidly, and by 1399 the institution had divided in two: a Universitas Iuristarum for civil law and Canon law, and a Universitas Artistarum which taught astronomy, dialectic, philosophy, grammar, medicine, and rhetoric. There was also a Universitas Theologorum, established in 1373 by Urban V.
The student body was divided into groups known as "nations" which reflected their places of origin. The nations themselves fell into two groups:
the cismontanes for the Italian students
the ultramontanes for those who came from beyond the Alps
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chief activity in pedua and belogna was commerce so lawyer and notaries were in great demand to write agreements without which trade on a large scale was not possible that is why the university of pedua and belogna had been centres of legal studies