The Bible in medieval universities
William J. Courtenay
The emergence of universities in the thirteenth century had a significant impact on study Bible. Preparatory changes already taken place twelfth at cathedral schools, such as Laon, Chartres and Paris, houses newly founded canonical orders, St Victor Paris. Yet principal setting for biblical early Middle Ages, namely monasteries, remained an important context, particularly those Cistercian order. What was new different institutional setting, universities, some which possessed faculty theology with corporation masters responsible teaching that included instruction. university structure brought together independent secular clerics who were theology, Peter Cantor, Poitiers, Simon Tournai Stephen Langton, into one corporate body, soon to be joined by members type religious order, mendicant friars. These Franciscans Dominicans, later Augustinian Hermits Carmelites, ostensibly supported their mission preaching care souls through begging (thus term mendicant); they saw ideal location training most talented studies. For first time Bible no longer simply served liturgical, homiletical spiritual needs individuals communities; it became academic discipline.
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