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Dark Age Education: Our Latest Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Joel T. Rosenthal*
Affiliation:
State University of New York Stony Brook

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Notes

1. Ferro, Marc, ed., Social Historians in Contemporary France (New York, 1972), from the ‘Foreward.’ Google Scholar

2. From John of Salisbury, The Policraticus , as quoted in The Portable Medieval Reader, ed., Ross, James B. and McLaughlin, Mary M. (New York, 1953), p. 48.Google Scholar

3. Haskins, Charles Homer, The Rise of Universities (Ithaca, 1957: reprint of 1923 edition), p. 25. The quotation is from Rashdall, Hastings, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages .Google Scholar

4. In the last 30 years Riché has written a number of general volumes: Grandes Invasions et Empires (1969); Les Invasions Barbares (1953); La Vie Quotidienne dans l'Empire Carolingien (1973), translated into English by McNamara, JoAnn, as Daily life in the World of Charlemagne (Philadelphia, 1978).Google Scholar

5. Particularly, Volume II, 102–10, 137–61, and 162–86. The maps (of which there are 13 in Volume I, 3 in Volume II) are cast in a rather simplistic fashion.Google Scholar

6. See Knowles, David, Great Historical Enterprises (London, 1963).Google Scholar

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8. Riché, Volume II, 129–30. See, de Fleury, Helgaud, Vie de Robert le Pieux, édité, traduit et annoté, Bautier, Robert-Henri & Labory, Gillette (Paris, 1965), and Rosenthal, J. T., ‘Edward the Confessor and Robert the Pious: 11th century Kingship and Biography’, Mediaeval Studies, 33 (1971): 720.Google Scholar

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13. Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society (translated, Manyon, L. A.) (Chicago, 1964), xx.Google Scholar