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Christian Schools and Scholars: or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent — John Shaqi

Christian Schools and Scholars: or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of TrentDrane, Augusta Theodosia

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Christian Schools and Scholars: or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent

Name: Christian Schools and Scholars: or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent
Author: Drane, Augusta Theodosia

Drane, Augusta Theodosia

Church and education; Education -- Europe -- History; Renaissance; Scholasticism

State of letters in Italy at the beginning of the twelfth century.
  Law schools of Bologna, founded by Irnerius. Other Italian schools.
  St. Peter Damian, scholasticus at Parma. His writings and poetry.
  The monastic masters still eminent. Anecdotes of some of them.
  Revival of classical studies in their schools at this time.
  Multiplication of books and libraries. Extraordinary activity of
  copyists. The libraries of Tegernsee and St. Emmeran’s. Othlonus
  and his studies. Customs of Cluny. Earliest known versions of the
  Scripture in the vulgar tongue. Frequent mention at this period of
  conversions to religious life of learned men. St. Bruno, founder
  of the Carthusians. Odo of Tournay. Stories of their lives. Odo’s
  school and disciples. The Nominalists and Realists. The state of
  the school of Paris. Notice of its most celebrated masters. Bernard
  of Chartres and his excellent system. Anselm of Laon. William of
  Champeaux. Abelard and his career. Scholasticism. Origin of the
  system of graduation. The school of St. Victor rises in opposition
  to the new school of scholastics. Character of its teaching. State
  of the schools as exhibited in the life of John of Salisbury. The
  heretical bias of the new independent professors. Their neglect of
  classical studies, and exclusive preference given by them to logic.
  The Cornificians. Scholastic sophistries. Peter Lombard, the real
  founder of scholastic theology. Gradual rise of the University of
  Paris.                                                             324


                            CHAPTER XIII.

       PARIS AND THE FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES.--A.D. 1150 TO 1250.

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