HISB61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carolingian Empire, Scholasticism
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Carolingian empire to about the 12th century, there were cathedral schools: eventually became the universities, the cathedral schools were very dependent on individual masters. William de montibus: went to paris for school (very important scholarly institution) Goal of scholasticism (according to southern): to provide a complete body of doctrine about both the natural and the supernatural worlds" that would be rationally unassailable and doctrinally coherent". It pretty much fell apart in the 14th century: limited observations about actual natural occurrences, not being very critical of the sources that they took information from. List of student books: bible with glossary, genesis and exodus, book of solomon, exodus, old testament, gospels, many of them glossed" commentary, sentences of master peter lombard about theology. Glossed bibles: prologue by st. jerome usually found first in the bibles, instead of the genesis, at the end of the bibles, there would be indices of other peoples" works related to the bible.
