The University(or Chapter School) is a building available in Age of Chivalry beginning in the 14th Century . Universities are of key importance in the mid-to-late game due to their pivotal upgrades in weaponry and building strength. The University does not train units. It is used purely for upgrades and technologies.
Building Statistics[]
Name: University
Available: All (Available from 14th Century)
HP: 2100
Attack:0
Range: 0
Garrison Capacity: 0
Cost: 200 wood
Tecnologies[]
Technologies are the primary reason for building a University. The advantages of the University technologies are predominantly structural, missile, or siege-based. Below is a list of the technologies you can research from the University:
- Alchemy
- Architecture
- Ballistics
- Bombard Tower
- Border Forts (Wales)
- Fortified Wall
- Guard Tower
- Heated Shot
- Keep
- Masonry
- Murder Holes
- Siege Engineers
- Surgery
- Treadmill Crane
Historical Background[]
A Medieval university is an institution of higher learning which was established during High Middle Ages period and is a corporation.
The first institutions generally considered to be universities were established in Italy, France, and England in the late 11th and the 12th centuries for the study of arts, law, medicine, and theology. These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide.
"The word universitas originally applied only to the scholastic guild (or guilds)—that is, the corporation of students and masters—within the studium, and it was always modified, as universitas magistrorum, or universitas scholarium, or universitas magistrorum et scholarium. In the course of time, however, probably toward the latter part of the 14th century, the term began to be used by itself, with the exclusive meaning of a self-regulating community of teachers and scholars whose corporate existence had been recognized and sanctioned by civil or ecclesiastical authority."
From the early modern period onwards, this Western-style organizational form gradually spread from the medieval Latin west across the globe, eventually replacing all other higher-learning institutions and becoming the preeminent model for higher education everywhere.