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The contents and affiliation of the scientific manuscripts written at, or brought to, Chartres in the time of John of Salisbury
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2016
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In the debate over the state of cathedral schools and their displacement as centres of learning by the rising universities, the case of Chartres has, for nearly a century, excited the most attention. Much has been written on, first, whether the activity of several prominent intellectuals of the twelfth century such as Thierry, William of Conches and Gilbert of Poitiers was primarily at Chartres or at Paris; and, secondly, whether the thought of ‘Chartrian’ masters is old-fashioned or open to the profound changes which effected twelfth-century scientific learning. These changes resulted largely from the introduction of works translated from Greek and Arabic during that century. In this paper I try to clarify the situation at Chartres itself by summing up the evidence from the manuscripts known to have been in the cathedral library in the twelfth century of the degree to which this ‘new science’ was received there, and how it was assimilated.
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- Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 3: The World of John of Salisbury , 1984 , pp. 127 - 160
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- Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1994
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