The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: February 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780881339420
Subjects: History / Medieval; Education / Teaching; Sociology; History; Civilization, Medieval; Europe; Europe - General; Learning and scholarship; Medieval; Medieval, 500-1500; Scholasticism; History / Europe / General
First sentence: On 12 August 1257, two Italian friars, the Franciscan Bonaventure and the Dominican Thomas Aquinas, were admitted as teaching masters into the faculty of theology of the university of Paris.
Description: This highly regarded essay seeks to unify medieval culture by emphasizing its common institutions. The controlling theme is scholastic. Defined in a technical sense, it is simply that manner of thinking, teaching, and writing devised in and characteristic of the medieval schools. From the Preface: "Unity of theme can best be achieved by ignoring what is irrelevant. To concentrate my efforts, I have limited attention chronologically to the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries and geographically to France and Italy, when and where, I believe, scholastic culture attained its apogee." -- from back cover.