Knowledge in the Cloisters: Monastic and Cathedral Schools in the Middle Ages
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Monastic and cathedral schools, Middle Ages, Western Europe, medieval school syllabus, authors canon, manuscripts productionAbstract
This article presents a summary of the role played by the monastic and cathedral schools in the transmission of knowledge during the Middle Ages. Using the periods established by the Medieval historiography as reference, the following factors are considered in the shaping of the school curriculum: libraries, manuscripts production and the activity of the schoolmasters. What is more, these factors let us identify the centres of the cultural geography of Medieval Western Europe up to the birth of the universities at the beginning of the Thirteenth century. The monastic and cathedral schools provided a syllabus that combined knowledge and ethics (littera et mores) through the study of grammar and rhetoric (cultivation of classical virtues). The majority of literate people were educated in these institutions during the medieval centuries, especially clerks and monks, versatile men who served both to the Church and the royal and lordship courts with equal skill. In this way, the ecclesiastical schools symbolized the close alliance between learning and power that was consolidated during the Late Middle Ages.
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