The Origins of the University. The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - The University of Paris is generally regarded as the first true university, the model for other universities not only in France but throughout Europe, including Oxford and Cambridge. In this book, the author challenges two prevailing myths about the origins of the university: first, that the university developed naturally to meet the utilitarian and professional educational needs of European society in the late Middle Ages, and second, that the university was born as a product of the struggle by scholars to gain freedom and autonomy from external authorities, notably from local church officials. -- In the twelfth century, Paris was the educational center of Europe, with a large number of schools and masters attracting and competing for students. Over the decades, the schools of Paris had many critics� monastic reformers, humanists, satirists, and moralists�and the focus of this book is on the role of these critics in the development of the schools into a university. The author argues that it was the educational values and ideas promoted by the critics�ideas of the unity of knowledge, the need to share learning freely and willingly, and the higher purposes and social importance of education�that first inspired the scholars of Paris to join together to form a single guild. Their programs for educational reforms are also seen in the first set of statutes promulgated for the nascent University of Paris in 1215. ISBN 9780804712668