This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Venerable Bede, whom Green calls "the first great English scholar," and in the latter part of the eighth century the monastery of Fulda in Germany became an important centre of education. The annals of the monastery of Clugny, founded in the tenth century, are adorned with the name of Hildebrand, the greatest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...Venerable Bede, whom Green calls "the first great English scholar," and in the latter part of the eighth century the monastery of Fulda in Germany became an important centre of education. The annals of the monastery of Clugny, founded in the tenth century, are adorned with the name of Hildebrand, the greatest pope of the Middle Ages (1073-1085), and with that of Bernard, the sweetest singer of the period.1 In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, among the monastic institutions where great leaders were trained, none were more famous than St. Victor near Paris and Clairvaux in southern France. To the monastic institution, which was the most widely spread" and most persistent educational force in the period with which we are concerned, the State is to be added, especially as represented by Charlemagne, who as an educator still more than as a statesman deserved to be called, as he was by one of his contemporaries, "the lofty beacon of Europe." He sought education for him 1 Among the best known of Bernard's hymns is that which begins "Hora novissima, tempora pessima sunt vigilemus," and the "Laus patriae coelestis," from which we have--"Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blest." 'There were some fifty monasteries in England in 1066 according to Cutts, Parish Priests and their People in the Middle Ages in England, P-37 self, and even in advanced years acquired the art of writing.1 It was also one of his deepest desires to have his clergy and nobility educated. To this end he summoned Alcuin from England in 782 to be the head of his palace school, and his grandson, Charles the Bald, gave the same position in his household to Erigena, an Irish monk and the most eminent thinker of his century....
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