The Misfiring of German Cultural Leadership in the Twelfth Century: The Evidence from the Cathedral Schools
Paul B. Pixton
Although German culture, Eke political authority, stood above the rest of Latin Christendom in late tenth and early eleventh centuries, this cultural pre-eminence was lost during course twelfth century. Nowhere is more evident than schools. Between 1050 1125, a shift occurred, characterized by desire aspirants for high ecclesiastical office Germany going beyond its borders advanced training. My paper focuses on some causes effects shift, subsequent decline cathedral schoob, retarded entry into community nations which sported universities. It contrasb challenging (and exciting) curriculum developing schoob northern France Italy century with conservative (even remedial) seemed to become chief offering contemporaneous schoob. The net result loss leadership that moved periphery activities until Reformation: passed France, even England time being.
Paedagogica Historica