Description
The University of Paris is generally regarded as the first true university, the model for other universities not only in France but also throughout Europe, including Oxford and Cambridge. In this book, the author challenges two prevailing myths about the origins of the university: first, that the university developed naturally to meet the utilitarian and professional educational needs of European society in the late Middle Ages, and second, that the university was born as a product of the struggle by scholars to gain freedom and autonomy from external authorities, notably from local church officials.
In the twelfth century, Paris was the educational center of Europe, with a large number of schools and masters attracting and competing for students. Over the decades, the schools of Paris had many critics-monastic reformers, humanists, satirists, and moralists-and the focus of this book is on the role of these critics in the development of the schools into a university. The author argues that it was the educational values and ideas promoted by the critics-ideas of the unity of knowledge, the need to share learning freely and willingly, and the higher purposes and social importance of education-that first inspired the scholars of Paris to join together to form a single guild. Their programs for educational reforms are also seen in the first set of statutes promulgated for the nascent University of Paris in 1215.
Stephen C. Ferruolo is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University.
This is a reproduction edition from a scan of the following original edition:
The origins of the university: the schools of Paris and their critics, 1100-1215
By Stephen C. Ferruolo
Published by Stanford University Press, 1985
ISBN 0804712662, 9780804712668
380 pages
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Paris and the Expansion of Education 11
William the Breton , William of Champeaux , Peter Helias
CHAPTER TWO The School of St Victor 27
William of Champeaux , trivium , Hugh of St
CHAPTER THREE Monastic Opposition to the Schools 47
William of St , Bernard of Clairvaux , Citeaux
CHAPTER FOUR The Satirists 93
Walter of Chatillon , Geta , Birria
CHAPTER FIVE The Humanists 131
Peter of Blois , Gerald of Wales , Bernard of Chartres
Preaching to Scholars 184
Peter Comestor , Peter of Poitiers , Hilduin
Promoting Reform 222
Peter of Poitiers , Peter Comestor , Stephen of Tournai
CONCLUSION The Formation of the University of Paris 279
Robert of Courson , William the Breton , bishop of Paris
Notes 319
Historia calamitatum , Peter of Blois , R. W. Southern
Manuscripts Cited 371
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stanford press, John of Salisbury, Peter of Poitiers, Peter Abelard, Paris masters, Robert of Courson, Peter Comestor, Cistercian, Stephen Langton, Peter of Blois, Robert Pullen, trivium, Peter Lombard, Alan of Lille, Stephen of Tournai, Walter of Chatillon, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of Conches, quadrivium, Hilduin, Peter the Chanter 
