Background
Paulus Castrensis was born in Italy in 1360.
Paulus Castrensis was born in Italy in 1360.
Paulus Castrensis studied under Baldus at Perugia, and was a fellow-pupil with Cardinal Zabarella.
He was admitted to the degree of doctor of civil law in the university of Avignon, but it is uncertain when he first undertook the duties of a professor.
A tradition, which Paulus Castrensis been handed down by Panzirolus, represents him as having taught law for a period of fifty-seven years.
He was professor at Vienna in 1390, at Avignon in 1394, and at Padua in 1429 and, at different periods, at Florence, at Bologna and at Perugia. He was for some time the vicar-general of Cardinal Zabarella at Florence, and his eminence as a teacher of canon law may be inferred from the language of one of his pupils, who styles him " famosissimns juris utriusque monarca. " His most complete treatise is his readings on the Digest, and it appears from a passage in his readings on the Digest um Vetus that he delivered them at a time when he had been actively engaged for forty-five years as a teacher of civil law.
