Schools & Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England

by William J. Courtenay

William Courtenay provides a comprehensive account of educational structure and intellectual life in fourteenth-century England. Arguing that the two decades between 1320 and 1340 merit recognition as a golden age of English scholasticism, he examines the achievements of this period, their origins, and their adoption throughout continental Europe. He depicts an institutional setting, centered on Oxford but including cathedral and mendicant schools...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691055009
• ISBN13: 9780691055008
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"