Yale University Library Research Guides: Medieval Christianity: Education

Education in Middle Ages

A Companion to Twelfth-Century Schools (Online) by Cédric Giraud (Editor); Ignacio Duran (Translator)
From Learning to Love: Schools, Law, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages The essays in this volume, devoted to the culture of the Western middle ages, are divided into three categories: "Masters, Schools, and Learning," "Pastors, Judges, and Administrators," and "Liturgy, Piety, and Exempla." The investigations span the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries, and reach from Italy to Scotland and Wales; many centre on England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Learning As Shared Practice in Monastic Communities, 1070-1180 by Micol Long In this study, Micol Long looks at Latin letters written in Western Europe between 1070 and 1180 to reconstruct how monks and nuns learned from each other in a continuous, informal and reciprocal way during their daily communal life.
Medieval Education (Online) by Ronald B. Begley (Editor); Joseph W. Koterski (Editor) Explores the transmission of knowledge during the middle ages in various kinds of educational communities, including schools, scriptoria, universities, and workshops.

Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100-1500 by John N. Crossley (Editor); Constant Mews (Editor) The collected essays bring together disciplinary approaches that are often discussed quite separately, namely that of the history of ideas, and the sociologies of both intellectual and religious life, with a view to exploring the multiplicity of communities in which ideas are pursued.
The Papacy and the Rise of the Universities (Online) by Gaines Post (+); William J. Courtenay (Volume Editor) The volume covers the interaction of the papacy with multiple universities from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and opens up a much broader range of topics, considering papal intervention and influence in the areas of licensing to teach, financial support for masters and students, dispensations for study, regulation of housing rents, and the founding of colleges.
The Rise of Universities (Online) by Charles Homer Haskins; Theodor E. Mommsen (Preface by) The origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous sett of lectures by the man whom eminent scholars have called "without exaggeration... the soul of the renascence of medieval studies in the United States."