Science in the Monastery: Texts, Manuscripts and Learning at Saint-Bertin (Bibliologia: Elementa Ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia, 55) (English and Latin Edition)

Livesey, Steven J.

ISBN 10: 2503585639 / ISBN 13: 9782503585635

Published by Brepols Publishers, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science in the Monastery: Texts, Manuscripts and Learning at Saint-Bertin (Bibliologia: Elementa Ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia, 55) (English and Latin Edition)
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503585639
• ISBN 13: 9782503585635
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

The traditional view of monastic orders in late-medieval scholastic culture has been relatively muted. Beyond the Franciscan and Dominican orders, and to a far lesser extent, the Augustinians and Cistercians, the older monastic orders (and especially the Benedictines) played a smaller role in the university during the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries. Yet if the library collection of Saint-Bertin is examined more carefully, one finds that many of the books were added by alumni of the University of Paris and Louvain, and in one instance, Cologne, and that as a whole, the monastery's collection reflected the changing currents within late medieval intellectual society. Science in the Monastery proposes to analyze Benedictine science using Saint-Bertin as a vehicle.