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Education, Medieval

Images

  • A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • A male and female warrior dispute over a child lying prone underneath; representing rhetoric. Etching by C. Schut.
  • A female figure with wings and a globe; representing astronomy. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • An old man discourses with a woman with a bird on her head; representing dialectic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Figures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Education and culture in the barbarian West, sixth through eighth centuries / by Pierre Riché ; translated from the 3d French edition by John J. Contreni ; with a foreword by Richard E. Sullivan.

    Riché, Pierre. | Date: 1976
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    Crossing boundaries at medieval universities / edited by Spencer E. Young.

    | Date: 2011
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    Die Artes liberales in Antike und Mittelalter : Bildungs- und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Entwicklungslinien / von Uta Lindgren.

    Lindgren, Uta, 1941- | Date: 1992
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    University training in medieval Europe / by Alfonso Maierù ; translated and edited by D.N. Pryds.

    Maierù, Alfonso. | Date: [1994], ©1994
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    The medieval universities : their development and organization / A.B. Cobban.

    Cobban, Alan B. (Alan Balfour), 1939- | Date: 1975
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