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Schools in the Twelfth Century

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There is no general agreement on the meaning of the expression “twelfth-century schools” and the reality of some of them, mainly of the famous School of Chartres, has been seriously challenged. Without solving this problem, we can distinguish three types of institution: (1) The cathedral schools: Notre-Dame of Paris, Chartres, and also Laon, Orléans, Reims. These schools are, first and foremost, places where theology was taught. (2) Collegial or canonical schools: the most interesting example is the School of Saint Victor. (3) Private schools, led by independent masters, based in Paris and focusing their teaching on dialectic, logic, and the liberal arts but also interested in theology. Schools are different from each other regarding their institutional status, the authoritative texts on which they focus, and their doctrinal inclination.

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    Christophe Erismann

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Erismann, C. (2011). Schools in the Twelfth Century. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_459

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