Lanfranc at Caen: Teaching by Example
Priscilla D. Watkins
The essays in this collection focus not on texts but people, specifically teachers and their students, beginning with the late Carolingian era continuing through creation of monastic secular schools centuries before first universities. Central to articles volume are communities Northern France England, including Reims, Bec, Soissons, Canterbury, whose patterns thought learning gave shape intellectual endeavours throughout medieval Europe. In addition some most prominent personalities day (among them Gerbert Lanfranc Anselm Ivo Chatres, John Salisbury), contributors examine those students who worked shadows: figures like biblical exegete Richard Préaux musical innovator Theinred Dover. is personal relationships, thus recreating human connections that lay behind humanism Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Taken together, here create a coherent compelling picture tumultuous time universities came organize take control teaching learning, seminal period when methods curricula grew out particular experience specific interactions students.
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