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An Early Medieval Licensing Examination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Charles W. Jones
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Extract

An unpublished ninth-century document which has apparently survived in a single copy has pertinence for historians of education as a prototype of licensing examinations. The document reports the results of an oral examination administered in the empire of Charles the Great in A.D. 809. Although a number of textbooks, some in catechistic form, have survived from the period of the Carolingian revival of learning, I know nothing else of this kind. For all save the few historians of early medieval mathematics, it needs a brief historical and technical introduction.

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Research Article
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1963 , pp. 19 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © 1963, University of Pittsburgh Press 

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