The Search for Knowledge: Andalusi Scholars and Their Travels to the Islamic East
In this paper I have analyzed biographical information concerning Andalusi scholars who traveled to the East as a part of their academic training, focusing on the ages at which they undertook their journeys, which closely relates to their ages at the beginning of their studies.
The medieval monastery as franchise monopolist
This paper continues a line of inquiry begun by Ekelund, HCbert and Tollison, (hereafter, E-H-T) which uses the theories of monopoly, rent seeking, and industrial organization to explain the economics of the medieval monastery…
Dancing with the Dance of the Dead : cemetery of the Innocents and the ramifications of the Macabre
Glaring at us from the pages of illuminated manuscripts, royal sepulchers, and frescoes of Late Medieval churches and cemeteries, macabre cadavers, with their gaping, vermin-infested torsos, emaciated bodies, and grimacing faces, shock and repel.
The Place of the Tyrant in Machiavelli’s Political Thought and the Literary Genre of the Prince
When Machiavelli put in writing his thoughts on government, he was the heir of this long-established tradition of reflection on tyranny…
The School at Salerno: Origin of the European Medical University
Despite oppression of scientific learning through the Dark Ages, the medical school at Salerno emerged in the ninth century, reviving the tradition of the Ancient schools. How is it that a school founded by monks was able to flourish, promoting the development of future European Universities?
The emergence of the English language as an educational medium in Medieval England
To better understand the relationship between linguistics, literature and education in Medieval England, some general background information is necessary to understand how these subjects intertwine…
Living history: learning through re-enactment
We are interested in the ways in which adult learn through engaging in leisure pursuits that have educational outcomes. Specifically in this paper we are interested in learning history; and second, we are interested in learning about history through doing.
Of Our Own Nation: John Wallis’s Account of Mathematical Learning in Medieval England
In A treatise of algebra both historical and practical, John Wallis wrote the first survey of the state of mathematical learning in medieval England, and discussed with particular care the arrival and significance of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system
A Question of Fish: Graduates and their Monasteries in the Middle Ages
I would like to contend that the impact of monk graduates upon the shape of medieval monasticism was for most communities very much smaller than historians have tended to suggest.
Colophoned Hebrew Manuscripts Produced in Spain and the Distributionof the Localised Codices
The mobility of individual Jews, by cholee or by economic necessity, and of entire
communities by forcé, made them agents of cross-cultural contacts and influences
Medieval Student Violence
Throughout the middle ages university towns such as Oxford, Paris and Bologna were incredibly dangerous places to live.
Historian examines the philosophy of Richard Rufus
Richard Rufus of Cornwall may be the most important figure in Western philosophy you’ve never heard of. A project based at Indiana University and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities aims to change that.
Deplatonising the Celestial Hierarchy. Peter John Olivi’s interpretation of the Pseudo-Dionysius
These two different pedigrees could not be easily reconciled. The encounter of biblical and Neoplatonic angels produced one of the most crucial questions that theologians had to face in the second half of the thirteenth century…
John to John: the Manuale Sacerdotis and the Daily Life of a Parish Priest
The Manuale is similarly a pastoral work, addressed to the priest, indeed, to a specific priest. It is however a different sort of work from the Instructions, and it does not provide the details of the tenets of the Church which the Instructions provides…
Christine de Pizan’s Enseignemens moraux: Good Advice for Several Generations
Christine de Pizan’s Enseignemens moraux: Good Advice for Several Generations Reno, Christine (VASSAR COLLEGE) Christine de Pisan: The Making of the Queen’s Manuscript (2005)…
The Education of Princess Mary Tudor
The Education of Princess Mary Tudor Pierret Perkins, Katherine Lee M.A. Thesis, History, Louisiana State University, December(2007) Abstract Mary Tudor, the first officially…
An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy
An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy Webb, Val (Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN) Sea Changes, Vol.1 (2001)…
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists
Adelard of Bath and Roger Bacon: early English natural philosophers and scientists Hackett, Jeremiah M. Endeavour, Vol. 26(2) 2002 Abstract The image of Roger Bacon…
The Fate of Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Islam and Western Christianity
The Fate of Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Islam and Western Christianity By Edward Grant Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 61,…
Birgitta of Sweden and the Divine Mysteries of Motherhood
Birgitta of Sweden and the Divine Mysteries of Motherhood Stjerna, Kirsi Feminist Forum, 24, no. 1 (1997) Abstract St. Birgitta of Sweden is…
Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England
Medieval Schools: Roman Britain to Renaissance England By Nicholas Orme Yale University Press, 2006 ISBN: 9780300111026 Publisher’s Synopsis: Children have gone to school in…
Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste
Astronomy and Compotus at Oxford University in the Early Thirteenth Century: The Works of Robert Grosseteste Dowd, Matthew F. PhD Philosophy Thesis, University…
Money and Morality in 14th century Sweden
Money and Morality in 14th century Sweden von Heijne, Cecilia Ephesos to Dalecarlia. Reflections on Body, Space and Time in Medieval and Early…
Medieval University
The Medieval University was a system of higher education that emerged in western Europe during the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
The Medieval University
The Medieval University By J.E. Healey Canadian Catholic Historical Association – Report, Vol. 17 (1950) Introduction: Let us take some young lad and…