Research Catalog

Title

Education and culture in the barbarian West, sixth through eighth centuries / by Pierre Riché ; translated from the 3d French ed. by John J. Contreni ; with a foreword by Richard E. Sullivan.

Author

Riché, Pierre.

Publication

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1976.

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Details

Description

xxxvii, 557 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare, VIe-VIIIe siècles. English

Alternative Title

Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare, VIe-VIIIe siècles.

Subject

• Education > Europe > History
• Educational anthropology > History
• Education, Medieval
• Middle Ages

Note

• Translation of Éducation et culture dans l'Occident barbare, VIe-VIIIe siècles.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [501]-516.

Contents

Introduction : the prestige of Roman education in the fifth century -- The survival of the antique school -- The barbarians and antique culture at the beginning of the sixth century -- Christians and the antique school at the beginning of the sixth century -- The first Christian schools at the beginning of the sixth century -- Education and culture in Byzantine Italy -- The education of laymen in Gaul and in Spain -- The education of clerics and monks in Gaul and in Spain -- The new elements of the seventh century -- The Renaissances : the end of the seventh century to the middle of the eighth century -- Methods of Christian education in the seventh and eighth centuries.

ISBN

087249330X

LCCN

76025249 //r83

OCLC

• ocm02346221
• SCSB-110344

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library