Pope Benedict XII in 1337 laid down, in the bull Pastor bonus, that 5% of Benedictine monks should be university students. But from the middle of the fourteenth century onwards there was an alternative, at the University of Cambridge. There were also the Benedictine Durham College, Oxford, and Canterbury College, Oxford.
Pope Benedict XII in 1337 established, in the bull Pastor bonus, that 5% of Benedictine monks should be university students. However, from the mid-fourteenth century onwards, an alternative existed at the University of Cambridge, as well as other institutions such as the Benedictine Durham College, Oxford, and Canterbury College, Oxford.