Centres of learning : : learning and location in pre-modern Europe and the Near East / / edited by Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 61
• TeilnehmendeR: Drijvers, Jan Willem,; MacDonald, A. A.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, New York ;, Köln, [Germany] : : E.J. Brill,, 1995.; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (353 pages).

Centres of Learning deals with the relation between learning and the locations in which that learning is carried out. It is the editors' belief that the character (and, in part, the content) of a particular aspect of learning is determined — or at least influenced — by the circumstances in which the learning process takes place. The contributions in this book deal with various aspects of learning, in a broad historical and geographical perspective, which ranges from Ancient Babylon, via classical Greece and Rome, and the Middle East (both Christian and Islamic), through to the Latin and vernacular cultures of the Christian West in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jan Willem Drijvers and ALASDAIR A. MacDonald -- ON THE OLD BABYLONIAN EDUBA CURRICULUM / H.L.J. Vanstiphout -- LEARNING AND POWER DURING THE SARGONID PERIOD / M.E. Vogelzang -- THE FAMILY AND OTHER CENTRES OF RELIGIOUS LEARNING IN ANTIQUITY / Jan N. Bremmer -- THE CHRISTIAN 'SCHOOL' OF ALEXANDRIA IN THE SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES / Roelof van den Broek -- THE SCHOOL OF EDESSA: GREEK LEARNING AND LOCAL CULTURE / Han J.W. Drijvers -- EASTWARD AND WESTWARD TRANSMISSION OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC / John W. Watt -- 'EDESSA GREW DIM AND NISIBIS SHONE FORTH': THE SCHOOL OF NISIBIS AT THE TRANSITION OF THE SIXTH-SEVENTH CENTURY / G.J. Reinink -- THE KORAN AND ITS EXEGESIS: FROM MEMORISING TO LEARNING / Fred Leemhuis -- ARABIC DIDACTIC VERSE / Geert Jan van Gelder -- THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES AND THE CONSOLIDATION OF PHILOLOGY IN CLASSICAL ISLAM / Wolfhart Heinrichs -- BAGHDAD, BOLOGNA, AND SCHOLASTICISM / George Makdisi -- OLD LAW AND NEW-FOUND POWER: HRABANUS MAURUS AND THE OLD TESTAMENT / Mayke de Jong -- SCIENTIFIC AND SPIRITUAL CULTURE IN HUGH OF ST VICTOR / Jan W.M. van Zwieten -- ANDREW OF ST VICTOR (d.1175): SCHOLAR BETWEEN CLOISTER AND SCHOOL / F.A. van Liere -- LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE: TWELFTH-CENTURY MONASTIC IDEAS / I. van't Spijker -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOMBARDIAN THEOLOGY, 1160-1215 / Marcia L. Colish -- ACADEMIC HERESY AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1200-1378 / J.M.M.H. Thijssen -- LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN AND THE SCHOLARS / Dick E.H. de Boer -- THE RECLUSORIUM AS AN INFORMAL CENTRE OF LEARNING / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker -- JOHN BROMYARD AND THE HEREFORD DOMINICANS / Peter Binkley -- CLASSICAL LEARNING AND THE BUILDING OF POWER AT THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BURGUNDIAN COURT / A.J. Vanderjagt -- AUCUNS PETIS ENSEIGNEMENS: 'HOME-MADE' COURTESY BOOKS IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE / Anne Marie De Gendt -- THE RENAISSANCE HOUSEHOLD AS CENTRE OF LEARNING / A.A. MacDonald -- THE SCOTTISH CHAPEL ROYAL AS CULTURAL INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN TOWN AND COURT / Theo van Heijnsbergen -- 'LIBERATION FROM THE TRIVIAL YOKE': DUTCH RENAISSANCE EDUCATORS AND THEIR CULTURAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL OBJECTIVES / Catrien Santing -- LATIN LITERATURE IN EARLY MODERN GRONINGEN / F. Akkerman.