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Synopsis
A series of twelve papers which were first delivered at a conference held in 1992 to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the University of Notre Dame. Universities were a creation of 12th-century Europe and market the beginning of institutionalised education. The essays examine the nature of learning itself and how learning benefited from the university system. Other papers question the purpose of medieval University learning and its value in producing clerics and lawyers.
Table of Contents
The first French universities and the institutionalization of learning: faculties, curricula, degrees / Jacques Verger -- Ciceronian rhetoric and the schools / Karin Margareta Fredborg -- The evolution of the trivium in university teaching: the example of the Topics / Olga Weijers -- Aristotle, Astrologia, and controversy at the University of Paris (1266-1274) / Jeremiah Hackett -- Philosophica disciplina: learning to teach philosophy in a university / Mark D. Jordan -- In the ambit of another faculty: Parisian theologians and the (meta)physical universe / Katherine H. Tachau -- Some aspects of the medieval teaching of Roman law / Andrâe Gouron -- Teaching canon law / James A. Brundage -- Discussions on the nature of medicine at the University of Paris, ca. 1300 / Cornelius O'Boyle -- The use of scripture in teaching at the medieval university / Lesley Smith -- The institutionalization of theology / William J. Courtenay -- Political theory and the fourteenth-century university / Jèurgen Miethke.