1 Bernard and the Schools of Tours
Mark Kauntze
This chapter demonstrates a picture of the immediate intellectual landscape in which Bernard Silvestris worked. There were three major religious communities twelfth-century Tours. The Carolingian revival liberal arts, and especially ars grammatica, as foundation for Christian education had an enormous influence on subjects, texts procedures learning adopted European schools through to twelfth century. And sense, legacy Alcuin's insistence close connection between arts scriptural exegesis was create institutional conceptual space later thinkers, such Silvestris, probe borderlands theology philosophy. concludes by examining handful poems that appear final folios aforementioned Saint-Martin schoolbook. These illuminate some ways ancient sources absorbed, imitated adapted school.Keywords: grammatica; Silvestris; Carolingian; schools; Tours
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