Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle AgesAlasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey The present volume, number VI in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in Groningen in November 2001. It is the second of three volumes. The first (volume V in the series), entitled Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The third one (volume VII in the series) bears the title Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1600-1960 and will be edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen. The present volume, Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, contains new studies on a wide range of matters pertaining to scholarship (and to changes in scholarship, in the European West) from the early Middle Ages throught to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines discussed include: literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education. |
Contents
Some Aspects of | 23 |
An Encyclopedic Lexicon | 43 |
An Early English Version of the Hortus Sanitatis | 61 |
Inventing the Encyclopedia | 73 |
On the Connection between Epistemology and Encyclopedic | 93 |
The Changing Face of Centres of Learning 14001700 | 115 |
Changes in the Educational Context of the Leuven Faculty | 139 |
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