The First Universities
The First Universities
This is a general study of the development of higher education in Europe from antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages, set against a background of the social and political history of the period. It shows how the slender traditions of ancient learning, kept alive in the monastic and cathedral schools, was enriched by an enormous influx of knowledge from the Islamic world and how in consequence the schools developed into universities. These early institutions are examined from a variety of points of view, as institutions, as places where ideas spread and as points of interaction with local and national authority. Special attention is paid to early intellectual history and to the scientific disciplines and to the everyday life of the students and their teachers. The book is intended as a broad introduction to the subject for students of the history of education, but it will also attract general readers with only a slight knowledge of the subject.
Product details
January 1998Hardback
9780521594318
328 pages
229 × 152 × 22 mm
0.63kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The classical inheritance
- 2. From ancient science to monastic learning
- 3. The Carolingian Renaissance
- 4. The schools of the middle ages
- 5. From school to studium generale
- 6. The battle for the universities
- 7. Structure and form of government
- 8. The material situation
- 9. The road to degrees
- 10. Curricula and intellectual trends
- Indexes.
