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16: - Schools and Learning

from Part IV - Institutions and Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2022

By
Niels Gaul
Edited by
Sarah Bassett
Sarah Bassett
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Summary

Chapter 16, “Schools and Learning,” offers an overview of Constantinople as an educational center. It considers the city’s role as an imperial center in attracting scholars, outlines the organization of the educational system, and examines the types of opportunities available to students.

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educationgrammar schoolrhetoriclogic.
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The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople , pp. 263 - 276
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Further Reading

Agapitos, P. A., ‘Teachers, Pupils and Imperial Power in Eleventh-Century Byzantium’, in Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning, ed. Too, Y. L and Livingstone, N. (Cambridge, 1998), 170–91.Google Scholar
Agapitos, P. A., ‘“Middle-Class” Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Book-ish’ Identity of John Tzetzes’, in Ideologies and Identities in the Medieval Byzantine World, ed. Stouraitis, Y. (Edinburgh, forthcoming).Google Scholar
Bernard, F., ‘Educational Networks in the Letters of Michael Psellos’, in The Letters of Psellos, ed. Lauxtermann, M. and Jeffreys, M. (Oxford, 2017), 13–41.Google Scholar
Browning, R., ‘Teachers’, in The Byzantines, ed. Cavallo, G. (Chicago, 1997), 95–116.Google Scholar
Lemerle, P., ‘Le gouvernement de philosophes’, in Cinq études sur le XIe siècle byzantine, Lemerle, P (Paris, 1977), 193–248.Google Scholar
Lemerle, P., Byzantine Humanism: The First Phase (Canberra, 1986).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Markopoulos, A., ‘Education’, in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, ed. Jeffrey, E., Haldon, J. and Cormack, R. (Oxford, 2008), 785–95.Google Scholar
Schlange-Schöningen, H., Kaisertum und Bildungswesen im spätantiken Konstantinopel (Stuttgart, 1995).Google Scholar
Speck, P., Die Kaiserliche Universität von Konstantinopel (Berlin, 1974).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steckel, S., Gaul, N. and Grünbart, M. (eds), Networks of Learning: Perspectives on Scholars in Byzantine East and Latin West, c. 1000–1200 (Berlin, 2015), 235–80.Google Scholar
Wilson, N., Scholars of Byzantium, rev. ed. (London, 1996).Google Scholar

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