The Intellectual Climate of the Early University
Essays in Honor of Otto Gründler
Edited by Nancy Van Deusen
Hardback (Published)
(July 1997)
ISBN: 9781879288836
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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A university exists to make known what can only be revealed by consistent, dedicated effort. Ultimately, a university exists in order to understand the things that are hidden from ordinary, casual view. This is a message that is subtly reinforced by all of the articles in this volume.
Despite a good deal of research and writing concerning the development and intellectual transformation in the period of the early university, the subject remains in many respects enigmatic. This collection of essays in honor of Otto Grundler tackles many of the questions that run to the heart of the early university. The volume will be of interest to scholars of the period as well as anyone familiar with issues of today’s academic profession, as the questions that confronted the early university are not so unfamiliar today: What exactly is the life of the mind? What should one learn in a university? What is learning itself good for? What is a discipline, and is it possible for disciplines to reinforce each other? Can some university disciplines be identified as givens, as forming an unquestionably self-evident basis for university study? And even that most basic question: What is a university after all? This collection of essays from experts in a range of fields confronts these questions in a broad, satisfying way that expands and clarifies the questions that are as relevant today as they were in the thirteenth century.
Preface
The Sentence Collection and the Education of Professional Theologians in the Twelfth Century by Marcia Colish
Approaches and Attitudes to a New Theology Textbook: the Sentences of Peter Lombard by Nancy Spatz
A Re-evaluation of the Contribution of Thomas Aquinas to the Thirteenth-Century Theology of the Eucharist by Gary Macy
Intellectual Mathematical Activity in the Thirteenth Century by Barnabas Hughes, O.F.M.
Thirteenth-Century Motion Theories and Their Musical Applications: Robert Grosseteste and Anonymous IV by Nancy Van Deusen
The De Musica of Engelbert of Admont: The Transmission of Scholastic Musical Thought by Richard J. Wingell
The Understanding of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy by the Early Scholastics by Richard C. Dales
The Condemnations of 1277 and the Intellectual Climate of the Medieval University by Leland Edward Wilshire
The Schoolmen by Allan B. Wolter, O.F.M.
Contributors
- Edited by Nancy Van Deusen
Other Titles in this Series
The “Other Tuscany”
Essays in the History of Lucca, Pisa, and Siena during the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries
The Salt of Common Life
Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis
The Preservation and Transmission of Anglo-Saxon Culture
Selected Papers from the 1991 Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists
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