Before the universities, the preservation and transmission of knowledge was a monopoly of the Church, i.e. the monastic and episcopal schools open to clerics and laymen. By the middle of the 11th century, cathedral schools were already widespread and competed for prestige and notoriety with monastic schools. Students travelled along the network of roads that linked, in particular, the cathedral schools in France , Germany, Italy, England and Spain, which were more sensitive to the spirit of cultural renewal that was to assert itself and characterise the 12th century

Collection: Images

Project: 9. Travels and travelers: economic, social and cultural connections.

Chronology: XI

Scope: Secondary Education, Higher Education

Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecoles_XIe_s.gif

Resource type: Image

Format: Images

Source: P. Riché, Écoles et enseignement dans le haut Moyen Âge, fin du Ve-milieu du XIe siècle, 3e éd., Paris, Picard, 1999, p.138-139

Language: French

Date: XI

Owner: Manuela Ghizzoni (Modernalia)

Copyright: Creative Commons

Abstract: Cathedral and monastic schools in the middle of 11th century

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