The Origins of University
Subtitle: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780804712668
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Universities / polytechnics; History Of Higher Education; Education / Teaching; Universite de Paris; Europe; Higher; Education / Higher; Education, Medieval; History
First sentence: IN THE EARLY twelfth century, Paris established its preeminence as a city of learning both by surpassing the other cathedral cities of Northern France in the number and prominence of its schools and by becoming the undisputed educational center in all of Western Europe for the study of the liberal arts and theology.