Punishment and Medieval Education, by Ben Parsons

2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (575) ◽  
pp. 996-998
Author(s):  
Hannah Skoda
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Education

Lawrence of Amalfi's Mathematical Teaching

Traditio ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 445-449
Author(s):  
Francis Newton
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Teaching ◽  
Medieval Education ◽  
Almost All

A Venice manuscript of the eleventh century (Marcianus Z. L. 497), containing a handbook of the liberal arts, deserves the attention of students of medieval education, for it is connected with a man who was considered one of the most learned scholars of his day. The man is Lawrence of Amalfi. Information on the life of this scholar is meager, but we have glimpses of his literary activity as a monk of Monte Cassino, through writings of his which were preserved in the abbey; much later, after his elevation to the archbishopric of Amalfi and his subsequent exile, we find him taking refuge in Florence, where he wrote a life of a local saint; still later, we hear of him in Rome, teaching the boy Hildebrand, who was to become pope as Gregory VII; and we see him at the close of his life in affectionate friendship with Odilo of Cluny. Yet the renown of the archbishop suffered an eclipse within a century of his death. At Monte Cassino, almost all knowledge of Lawrence's subsequent history (after his leaving the monastery) was lost, and those elsewhere who recorded the few facts known about the archbishop of Amalfi did not connect him with the ancient monastery from which he came. In modern scholarship, Lawrence the monk and Lawrence the archbishop appeared as two distinct figures. Therefore, until Professor Walther Holtzmann brought together the scattered references and, through stylistic analysis, identified the monk of Monte Cassino with the archbishop of Amalfi, even the main outline of the scholarly churchman's career was obscure.

The Problem of Grammar in Medieval Education – Art or Science

Diogenes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoyan Buchvarov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Clement Of Alexandria ◽  
Symbolic Method ◽  
Medieval Education ◽  
Teaching Grammar

This article the idea of teaching grammar in the Middle Age and development of grammar from liberal art to science. Aristotle introduced grammar as a free art and gave purpose of teaching in the liberal arts. Clement of Alexandria goes on to justify and argue that grammar is part of liberal arts. Propose symbolic method as the most suitable for teaching grammar. Boethius of Dacia objects to the medieval tradition of teaching the liberal arts and believes that they should all be seen as sciences. He argues that grammar exist and needs to be taught as an objective independent verbal unified science.

Bede as a Classical and a Patristic Scholar

1933 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 69-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L. W. Laistner
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Intellectual Heritage ◽  
Medieval Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Middle Ages

Among the many and complex problems with which the history of Europe in the Middle Ages—and especially the earlier period of the Middle Ages—teems is the character of the intellectual heritage transmitted to medieval men from classical and later Roman imperial times. The topic has engaged the attention of many scholars, amongst them men of the greatest eminence, so that much which fifty years ago was still dark and uncertain is now clear and beyond dispute. Yet the old notions and misconceptions die hard, especially in books approximating to the textbook class. In a recently published volume on the Middle Ages intended for university freshmen there is much that is excellent and abreast of the most recent investigations; but the sections on early medieval education and scholarship seem to show that the author has never read anything on that subject later than Mullinger's Schools of Charles the Great.

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