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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 November 2009
      22 January 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511562488
      9780521594318
      9780521105231
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511562488
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies
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    Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, History, European Studies
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    This is a general study of the development of higher education in Europe from antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages, set against a background of the social and political history of the period. It shows how the slender traditions of ancient learning, kept alive in the monastic and cathedral schools, was enriched by an enormous influx of knowledge from the Islamic world and how in consequence the schools developed into universities. These early institutions are examined from a variety of points of view, as institutions, as places where ideas spread and as points of interaction with local and national authority. Special attention is paid to early intellectual history and to the scientific disciplines and to the everyday life of the students and their teachers. The book is intended as a broad introduction to the subject for students of the history of education, but it will also attract general readers with only a slight knowledge of the subject.

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