Life in the Medieval University (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert Sangster Rait

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440058512 ISBN 13 : 9781440058516

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

How medieval universities shaped learning and daily life
This book examines life in the medieval university, focusing on how students lived, studied, and organized themselves. It compares centers like Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, and explains how colleges, faculties, and student groups influenced daily routines, discipline, and learning.

Two chapters explore the origins of universities, the rise of colleges, and the rules that governed student conduct. The text highlights how study began in rooms and halls, how Latin became the common language, and how discipline, meals, and chapel kept students focused on their work.

• What life in a medieval college was like, from attendance and meals to study and recreation.


• How universities organized students by faculty, nation, and college, and how leaders were chosen.


• The kinds of rules that governed conduct, discipline, and daily routines in Paris, Oxford, and beyond.


• How the broader story of medieval higher learning developed from early schools to established universities.

Ideal for readers of medieval history, education history, and anyone curious about how early universities functioned and shaped learning.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

NOTE ON THE FRONTISPIECE In this picture the schoolboy is .seen arriving with his satchel and being presented with a hornbook by Nieostrata, the Latin muse Carmentis, who changed the Greek alphabet into the Latin. She admits him by the key of cemgruita* to the House of Wisdom (" Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars," Proverbs Ik. 1). In the lowest 6tory he begins hia course in Donatus under a Bachelor of Arts armed with the birch in the next he is promoted to Priscian. Then follow the other subjects of the Trimum and the Quadriviwm, each subject being represented by its chief exponent-logic by Aristotle, arithmetic by Boethius, geometry by Euclid, etc, Ptolemy, the philosopher, who represents astronomy, 19 confused with the kings of the same name. Pliny and Seneca represent the more advanced study of physical and of moral science respectively, and the edifice is crowned by Theology, the long and arduous course for which followed that of the Arts. Its

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440058512
• ISBN 13: 9781440058516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
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