The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts / Edition 1

by Jerome Taylor

Overview

This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon, composed in the late 1130's.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231096300
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	06/10/1991
Series:	Records of Western Civilization Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
The Didascalicon
Preface
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Appendices
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Caroline Walker Bynum

This treatise, produced in the early years of the twelth-century Renaissance by one of its most important theologians and educators, offers a vision of human knowledge as an integrated whole person. It is a crucial text for those in the Middle Ages, in the history of schools and pegagogy, and in the survival of the classical tradition in the West.

— Caroline Walker Bynum, Columbia University

Editorial Reviews

A reprint of the 1961 Columbia U. Press edition of the translation (from the Latin, by Jerome Taylor) of a 12th-century treatise that demonstrates the essential unity of all areas of knowledge and their necessity for the attainment of human perfection and divine destiny. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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