Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East

353 Pages·1997·36.65 MB·English

by  Jan Willem Drijvers

BRILL'S STUDIES
IN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
General Editor
A.J. VANDERJAGT, University of Groningen
Editonal Board
M. COLISH, Oberlin College
J.I. ISRAEL, University College, London
J.D. NORTH, University of Groningen
H.A. OBERMAN, University of Arizona, Tucson
R.H. POPKIN, Washington University, St. Louis-UCLA
VOLUME 61
CENTRES OF LEARNING
L·arning and Location
in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East
EDITED BY
JAN WILLEM DRIJVERS
AND
ALASDAIR A. MACDONALD
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EJ. BRILL
LEIDEN · NEW YORK · KÖLN
1995
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Centres of learning : learning and location in pre-modern Europe and
the Near East / edited by J.W. Drijvers and A.A. MacDonald
p. cm. — (Brill's studies in intellectual history, ISSN
0920-8607 ; v. 61)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 9004101934 (cloth)
1. Education, Ancient—Europe—History. 2. Education, Ancient-
-Middle East—History. 3. Education, Medieval—Europe—History.
4. Education, Medieval—Middle East—History. 5. Learning and
scholarship—History—Medieval, 500-1500. 6. Islamic learning and
Scholarship—History. 7. Schools—Europe—History. 8. Schools-
-Middle East—History. I. Drijvers, Jan Willem. II. MacDonald, A.
A. (Alasdair A.) III. Series.
LA31.C46 1995
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Centres of learning : learning and location in pre-modern
Europe and the Near East / ed. by J. W. Drijvers and A. A.
MacDonald. - Leiden ; New York ; Köln : Brill, 1995
(Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Vol. 61)
ISBN 90-04-10193-4
NE: Drijvers, Jan Willem [Hrsg.]; GT
ISSN 0920-8607
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vu
Notes on Contributors ix
Abbreviations xi
Preface χιιι
FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND
H.LJ. Vanstiphout
On the Old Babylonian Eduba Curriculum 3
M.E. Vogelzang
Learning and Power during the Sargonid Period 17
Jan N. Bremmer
The Family and Other Centres of Religious Learning in
Antiquity 29
Roelof van den Broek
The Christian 'School' of Alexandria in the Second and
Third Centuries 39
HanJ.W. Drijvers
The School of Edessa: Greek Learning and Local Culture ... 49
EX ORIENTE LUX
John W. Watt
Eastward and Westward Transmission of Classical Rhetoric 63
G.J. Reinink
'Edessa grew dim and Nisibis shone forth': The School of
Nisibis at the Transition of the Sixth-Seventh Century ... 77
Fred Leemhuis
The Koran and its Exegesis: from Memorising to Learning 91
Geert Jan van Gelder
Arabic Didactic Verse 103
Wolfhart Heinrichs
The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of
Philology in Classical Islam 119
George Makdisi
Baghdad, Bologna, and Scholasticism 141
VI CONTENTS
CLOISTERS AND SCHOOLS
Mayke de Jong
Old Law and New-Found Power: Hrabanus Maurus and the
Old Testament 161
Jan W.M. van Zwieten
Scientific and Spiritual Culture in Hugh of St Victor .... 177
F.A. van Liere
Andrew of St Victor (d. 1175): Scholar between Cloister and
School 187
I. van 't Spijker
Learning by Experience: Twelfth-Century Monastic Ideas 197
Marcia L. Colish
The Development of Lombardian Theology, 1160-1215 . . . 207
J.M.M.H. Thijssen
Academic Heresy and Intellectual Freedom at the University
of Paris, 1200-1378 217
Dick E.H. de Boer
Ludwig the Bavarian and the Scholars 229
Anneke Β. Mulder-Bakker
The Reclusorium as an Informal Centre of Learning .... 245
Peter Binkley
John Bromyard and the Hereford Dominicans 255
EXPANDING HORIZONS
A.J. Vanderjagt
Classical Learning and the Building of Power at the Fif­
teenth-Century Burgundian Court 267
Anne Marie De Gendt
Aucuns Petis Enseignemens: 'Home-made' Courtesy Books in
Medieval France 279
A.A. MacDonald
The Renaissance Household as Centre of Learning 289
Theo van Heijnsbergen
The Scottish Chapel Royal as Cultural Intermediary be­
tween Town and Court 299
Catrien Santing
'Liberation from the Trivial Yoke' : Dutch Renaissance Edu­
cators and their Cultural and Socio-Political Objectives 315
F. Akkerman:
Latin Literature in Early Modern Groningen 329
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The editors wish to record their gratitude to the following: The
Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), the Board of
Governors ('College van Bestuur') of the University of Groningen,
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen, Groningen
University Fund (GUF) and the organisers of the 'Centres of Learn
ing' conference (Dr. W.J. van Bekkum, Dr. P.A. Binkley, Dr.
Jos.M.M. Hermans, Prof. S.L. Radt, Dr. C.G. Santing). Special
thanks to Marij Becking, Norrie Horlings-Brandse and Justa
Renner-van Niekerk for their technical and secretarial assistance.
The 'Centres of Learning' conference is the first of two conferences
to be held as part of the Encyclopaedia Project of the COMERS
Research Centre; this project is supported by a subsidy from the
Central Policy Reserves ('Centrale Beleidsruimte') of the Univer
sity of Groningen.

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Fokke Akkerman is Senior Lecturer in Latin, University of
Groningen
Peter Binkley is Research Fellow in Medieval Studies, University of
Groningen
Dick de Boer is Professor of Medieval History, University of
Groningen
Jan Bremmer is Professor of History of Religion, University of
Groningen
Roelof van den Broek is Professor of History of Christianity,
University of Utrecht
Marcia Colish is Professor of the History of Philosophy, Oberlin
College
Han Drijvers is Professor of Semitic Languages, University of
Groningen
Jan Willem Drijvers is Lecturer in Ancient History, University of
Groningen
Geert Jan van Gelder is Lecturer in Arabic, University of
Groningen
Anne Marie De Gendt is Lecturer in Medieval French, University
of Groningen
Theo van Heijnsbergen is Lecturer in Scottish Literature, Univer
sity of Glasgow
Wolfhart Heinrichs is Professor at the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Mayke de Jong is Professor of Medieval History, University of
Utrecht
Fred Leemhuis is Senior Lecturer in Arabic, University of
Groningen
Frans van Liere is Junior Research Fellow in Medieval Studies,
University of Groningen
Alasdair MacDonald is Professor of Medieval English Language
and Literature, University of Groningen
George Makdisi is Professor of the History of Islam, University of
Pennsylvania
Anneke Mulder-Bakker is Lecturer in Medieval History, Univer
sity of Groningen
X NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Gerrit Reinink is Senior Lecturer in Syriac, University of
Groningen
Catrien Santing is Lecturer in Medieval History, University of
Groningen
Ineke van 't Spijker is Lecturer in Medieval History, University of
Groningen
Hans Thyssen is Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy,
Catholic University of Nijmegen
Arjo Vanderjagt is Professor of the History of Ideas, University of
Groningen
Herman Vanstiphout is Senior Lecturer in Assyriology, University
of Groningen
Marianne Vogelzang is Research Fellow in Assyriology, University
of Groningen
John Watt is Senior Lecturer in Syriac, University of Wales, Cardiff
Jan van Zwieten has a doctorate in Medieval History, University of
Amsterdam
ABBREVIATIONS
AASS—Acta Sanctorum
AHDLMA—Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge
ANRW—Auf stieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, ed. H. Temporini
(Berlin 1972- )
AS—Assyriological Studies
BSOAS—Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
CCCM—Corpus Ghristianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis
CIMAGEL—Cahiers de VInstitut de moyen-âge grec et latin, Université de
Copenhagen
CRAI—Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-
Lettres
CSCO—Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
DThC—Dictionnaire de théologie catholique
EETS—Early English Text Society
JCS—Journal of Cuneiform Studies
JEH—Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JAOS—Journal of the American Oriental Society
JSS—Journal of Semitic Studies
MGH Epp.—Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Epistolae
MGH SS—Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores
NK—W. Nijhoff, M.E. Kronenberg, Nederlandsche Bibliographie van
1500 tot 1540 (The Hague 1923-1966)
OrChr—Oriens Christianus
OrChrA—Orientalia Christiana Analecta
PG—Patrologia Graeca (ed. J.P. Migne)
PL—Patrologia Latina (ed. J.P. Migne)
PO—Patrologia Orientalis (ed. R. Graffin et al.)
RAC—Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (ed. T. Klauser et al.)
RE—Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (ed. A. Pauly,
G. Wissowa et al.)
SAA—State Archives of Assyria (Helsinki University Press)
SC—Sources Chrétiennes
STS—Scottish Text Society
TRE—Theologische Realenzyklopaedie (ed. G. Krause, G. Müller)
ZDMG—Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft