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Why did European monarchs (seemingly) take so long to start attending universities? It seems really, really weird to me that kings would wait until the 19th c. to study at one of these supposedly respected institutions that dated to the 11th to 13th c. (and often had royal patronage, no less).

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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