Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2012· Book chapter
Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris
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Medieval Paris's University developed a unique intellectual culture by integrating twelfth-century monastic and school learning with new ways of knowing, challenging established theological authority by the late thirteenth century.
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- The University of Paris emerged as a complex community with a distinct societal role in the thirteenth century.
- The book examines the interplay between learning environments and evolving ways of knowing from twelfth-century schools and monasteries to the university.
- Theologians' views on money, marriage, and sex reveal their complex understanding of the world and their societal responsibilities.
- Learned individuals, including women, active inside and outside the university challenged theological authority using the vernacular in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
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Abstract
In the thirteenth century, the University of Paris emerged as a complex community with a distinctive role in society. This book explores the relationship between contexts of learning and the ways of knowing developed within them, focusing on twelfth-century schools and monasteries, as well as the university. By investigating their views on money, marriage and sex, Ian Wei reveals the complexity of what theologians had to say about the world around them. He analyses the theologians' sense of responsibility to the rest of society and the means by which they tried to communicate and assert their authority. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, however, their claims to authority were challenged by learned and intellectually sophisticated women and men who were active outside as well as inside the university and who used the vernacular - an important phenomenon in the development of the intellectual culture of medieval Europe.
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