De l’office à la dignité
Thierry Kouamé
This book traces the history of one central actors in transformation Western educational system between 9th and 13th centuries: cathedral schoolmaster. Originally responsible for running episcopal school, this ecclesiastical official eventually became a true school administrator with territorial monopoly coercive powers, including particular issuing ‘licentia docendi’ to masters under his jurisdiction. Using wide range sources taking thirty-nine dioceses northern France, study analyses construction office from Carolingian period, place schoolmaster within canonical community feudal society, institutionalisation function Gregorian Reform birth universities.