Abelard’s Description of the School of Laon: What Might it Tell us About Early Scholastic Teaching?
M. T. Clanchy|Lesley Smith
Peter Abelard, in criticizing his master, Anselm of Laon, c. 1114, describes how theology was taught at Anselm’s school, which the most influential teaching institution Latin Europe. Abelard provides information particular about commentaries or glosses — both oral and written on books Bible, were speciality. These established themselves as Ordinary Gloss, comprising a commentary whole remained standard work until seventeenth century. Through biblical like Anselm’s, theological questioning developed students began to depend textbooks their masters rather than hearing them lecture remembering traditional wisdom. The conflict marks beginnings universities France.
Nottingham medieval studies