A Scholar’s Paradise

Teaching and Debating in Medieval Paris

By (author) Olga Weijers

Book cover: A Scholar’s Paradise

Extent: 257, 257 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: French Studies, Medieval Studies, Social Sciences 

Series: Studies in the Faculty of Arts. History and Influence

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2015)

ISBN: 9782503554631

Price: $70.00

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This book is focused on learning in the Medieval universities and in particular the University of Paris


This volume offers the general reader a synthesis of academic life in Paris during the first centuries of its existence. These early years were a period of excitement, discovery and intellectual freedom. Perhaps never again would a community of scholars engage in teaching and debate in such an astonishingly new and fresh world, with people, texts and ideas multiplying rapidly and surrounded by an equally rapidly developing city. From the perspective of the twenty-first century, it seems an enviable period, a time when optimism and eager research still went hand in hand with the idea that the whole of existence might be encompassed by the human mind.

  • By (author) Olga Weijers