Late Antiquity and the Transmission of Educational Ideals and Methods
Ilaria Ramelli
This chapter is going to explore how education functioned in Latin late antiquity, schools were organized, the liberal arts codified and transmitted works such as those of Martianus Capella his commentators, Augustine, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Isidore Sevilla. The also covers grammar rhetoric handbooks commentaries on poets (esp. Virgil), philosophers Cicero), scripture. Among commentators Cicero, Victorinus Macrobius are given special attention; among Biblical Jerome Rufinus analyzed. impoverishment bilingualism its incalculable consequences for culture theology exemplified by who, unlike Victorinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Rufinus, knew little or no Greek but had an enormous impact Western theology. Eriugena Carolingian age received heritage Martianus’ well Patristics them Middle Ages Latin. His was then exception.