Centres of learning
Subtitle: learning and location in pre-modern Europe and the Near East
By: edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald.
Contributors: Drijvers, Jan Willem.; MacDonald, A. A.
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history,; v. 61
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Education, Ancient -- Europe -- History; Education, Ancient -- Middle East -- History; Education, Medieval -- Europe -- History; Education, Medieval -- Middle East -- History; Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500; Islamic learning and scholarship -- History; Schools -- Europe -- History; Schools -- Middle East -- History
Description: Centres of Learning deals with the relation between learning and the locations in which that learning is carried out. It is the editors' belief that the character (and, in part, the content) of a particular aspect of learning is determined - or at least influenced - by the circumstances in which the learning process takes place.

The contributions in this book deal with various aspects of learning, in a broad historical and geographical perspective, which ranges from Ancient Babylon, via classical Greece and Rome, and the Middle East (both Christian and Islamic), through to the Latin and vernacular cultures of the Christian West in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.