“…ipsum studium perpetuo in civitate Bononie ut thesaurum pretiosissimum conservare”. The relationship between the urban order and the university in Bologna (12th-15th centuries)

This article examines the discourses on urban order and its relationship with the medieval university (Studium), starting from the imperial constitutio promulgated by Frederick Barbarossa (1155), which provided forms of protection for students and magistri who had moved away from their place of origin for the purpose of their studies, through various normative texts produced up to the last communal statutes of Bologna (1454). In particular, the article focuses on the civic statutes as an instrument of order and an expression of municipal autonomy vis-à-vis other powers, such as the imperial one, from which an analysis of the relationship between urban order and the university cannot be separated.