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Category Archives: medieval
The Foundations of Understanding
“Tender years should first be instructed in rules of the art or grammar, in analogies, in barbarisms, in solecisms, in tropes and schemata. These are the studies on which Donatus, Servius, Priscian, Isidore, Bede, and Cassiodorus expounded with much diligence, … Continue reading
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Proper Digestion
“In the process of learning, the very thing that ought to be a great help, namely, a great desire to learn, often becomes for many people an impediment. They want to take in everything at the same time, and are … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, medieval, memory, Pietro Paulo Vergerio, Renaissance, teaching
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Bringing Back What Happened
“It is a noble exercise to recount accurately the deeds of princes. To do so is to consider generously all that is subject to time, to celebrate the dead, to entertain the living, and to set out a past life … Continue reading
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Medieval University Students
“They attend classes but make no effort to learn anything….Such are the limbs of Satan rather than of Christ….And these persons who go to a university but do not study cannot with clear consciences enjoy the privilege of the fruits … Continue reading
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Hugh’s Hermeneutics
“First of all, it ought to be known that Sacred Scripture has three ways of conveying meaning–namely, history, allegory, and tropology….It is necessary, therefore, so to handle the Sacred Scripture that we do not try to find history everywhere, nor allegory … Continue reading
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Martin Luther on the Good Samaritan and Charity
“The fact is that wherever his [Christ’s] Word is welcomed and received in faith, it fashions people like the Samaritan here–gentle, compassionate, merciful people. They cannot bear to see anyone suffering and when this happens they tender their own resources and … Continue reading
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Grammar is our Mother
“Grammar is the cradle of all philosophy, and in a manner of speaking, the first nurse of the whole study of letters. It takes all of us as tender babes, newly born from nature’s bosom. It nurses us in our … Continue reading
Posted in grammar, John of Salisbury, Learning, medieval, teaching, trivium
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Memory and Reason
“Memory is, as it were, the mind’s treasure chest, a sure and reliable place of safe-deposit for perceptions. Reason, on its part, is that power of the soul which examines and investigates things that make an impression on the senses or intellect.” … Continue reading
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A Light to enlighten the Gentiles
“Could anyone hold up a lighted candle in his hands on this day without at once remembering that old man who on this same day took up in his arms Jesus, God’s Word, clothed in flesh like a candle-flame clothed … Continue reading
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