The purpose of this study is to use two relevant documents to make considerations about the history and memory of scholars who lived between the XIIth and the XIIIth centuries, in the Latin West. The first document, named Authentica Habita (1155/58), was edited by the emperor Frederico Barbaroxa (1122-1190). In this document, the Emperor of the Sacred Roman-Germanic Empire (1152-1190) presented a law, considered as the first one to defend the interests of scholars. The second document was the Statute of Sorbonne University (1274), a document which aimed at regulating the students' life within the university locus. For the analysis of both documents, written with the purpose of protecting and regulating the life of scholars, the path of social history will be followed, on a long-term perspective. Such retrospective is based on our view that historical processes, educational phenomena, as well as schools and universities of other historical periods may serve as starting points for contemporary men to reflect upon different subjects.
History of education; Middle ages; Schools; Universities