monastic schools - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg monastic schools - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Cathedral, city and education in the 13th century https://historylab.es/cathedral-city-and-education-in-the-13th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cathedral-city-and-education-in-the-13th-century Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/cathedral-city-and-education-in-in-the-13th-century/ Historian Georges Duby's lecture on Chartres Cathedral and its influence on material, political, economic and cultural conditions in the 13th century

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]]> The video presents the lecture by historian Georges Duby on the relationship between Chartres cathedral and urban development in the 13th century, with a focus on the cultural dimension: chapters 8 to 10 are dedicated to the theme of education in the Middle Ages, the activities of the cathedral school, the didactic organisation and the teaching of the theologian and philosopher Peter Abelard, the father of scholasticism.

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]]> Cathedral schools and monastic schools https://historylab.es/cathedral-schools-and-monastic-schools/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cathedral-schools-and-monastic-schools Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:24 +0000 https://historylab.es/cathedral-schools-and-monastic-schools/ Cathedral and monastic schools in the middle of 11th century

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]]> 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

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