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Schooling and society : the ordering and reordering of knowledge in the Western Middle Ages

Title
Schooling and society : the ordering and reordering of knowledge in the Western Middle Ages / edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Michael W. Twomey.
Publication
Leuven [Belgium] ; Dudley, MA : Peeters, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • MacDonald, A. A. (Alasdair A.)
  • Twomey, Michael W.
Description
xiv, 268 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
"The present volume, Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, contains new studies on a wide range of matters pertaining to scholarship (and to changes in scholarship) in the European West, from the Early Middle Ages through to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines include: literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 6
Uniform Title
Groningen studies in cultural change ; v. 6.
Subject
  • Education, Medieval > Congresses
  • Education > Social aspects > Europe > Congresses
  • Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > Congresses
  • Civilization, Medieval > Congresses
  • Civilization, Medieval
  • Education, Medieval
  • Education > Social aspects
  • Learning and scholarship
  • Bildung
  • Wetenschapssystematiek
  • Europe
  • Europa
  • Groningen <2001>
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-256) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Michael W Twomey -- Rabanus Maurus and his sources / Bill Schipper -- Quaestiones and encyclopedias : some aspects of the late medieval reception of Pseudo-Aristotelian problemata in encyclopedic and scientific culture / Iolanda Ventura -- The Macrologus of Liège : an encyclopedic lexicon at the dawn of humanism / Baudouin Van den Abeele -- The Noble Lyfe : an Early English version of the Hortus Sanitatis / L.A.J.R. Houwen -- Inventing the encyclopedia / Michael W Twomey -- On the connection between epistemology and encyclopedic Ordo in the Middle Ages and the early modem period / Christel Meier -- The changing face of centres of learning 1400-1700 / Hilde de Ridder-Symoens -- changes in the educational context of the Leuven Faculty of Theology in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries : canon law and humanism / Dirk Claes -- Semiramis in Grand Rhetoriqueur writing / Adrian Armstrong -- The rise and fall of the sibyls in Renaissance France / Jennifer Britnell -- Saint Ann in crisis / Ann Moss -- Paradigms lost : perceptions of the cultural history of sixteenth-century Scotland / Theo van Heijnsbergen -- When did the Middle Ages end? : reflections of an intellectual historian / Marcia L. Colish.
ISBN
  • 9042914106
  • 9789042914100
LCCN
  • 2003065458
  • 99810365759
OCLC
  • ocm53477037
  • 53477037
  • SCSB-1345162
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library