HIS220Y1 Chapter : The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages.docx
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The scholastic culture of the middle ages, 1000-1300. On 12 august 1257, two italian friars, the franciscan bonaventure and the dominican thomas aquinas, were admitted as teaching masters into the faculty of theology of the university of paris. Since louis ix was partial to the friars, especially to the fransicians and dominican orders, bonaventure and aquinas were personally acquainted with the king and occasionally enjoyed the bounty of his table. Medieval governments attempted to provide justice and soldiers: justice which comprised a legal system to supervise men"s social relations and soldiers to police the courts" decisions from within and to guard subjects from without. Cultural achievement requires a modicum of political stability. Even as late as the thirteenth century much of western europe did not enjoy the essentials of orderly society. The domains of the french king enjoyed tranquility and order uncommon for their day.
