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Excerpt from The Attitude of the Western Church Towards the Study of the Latin Classics in the Early Middle Ages
When we turn to the proper subject of this paper, the period from 800 to 1 100 a.d., we are struck by a great change which had occurred since the earlier period. Teaching was almost wholly in the hands of the monks or in?uenced by them. The reasons for this change are easily explained. Latin was the language of the Church, and had ceased to be the language commonly spoken. It was necessary to estab lish schools in the monasteries in order to instruct novices in the elements of Latin. The tendency was to confine the instruction to those who devoted themselves to the monastic profession. But this tendency was counteracted by the necessity of having parish priests who knew enough Latin to read the church services. The monastic schools were almost the only places in which such an education could be secured. The church councils were active in providing for such in struction. Boniface exerted himself to institute schools in the F rankish kingdom. He had himself been a teacher, and had written text-books. As he found the monks and nuns unfit to give instruction, he summoned teachers from England, his old home. This importation of teachers is especially important, because in England, as we learn from the Venerable Bede, a more liberal idea of education and of the use of the classics had pre''vailed.'' Yet it is worthy of attention that Boniface in his letters shows no trace of interest in, or special knowledge of, the classics.''
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When we turn to the proper subject of this paper, the period from 800 to 1 100 a.d., we are struck by a great change which had occurred since the earlier period. Teaching was almost wholly in the hands of the monks or in?uenced by them. The reasons for this change are easily explained. Latin was the language of the Church, and had ceased to be the language commonly spoken. It was necessary to estab lish schools in the monasteries in order to instruct novices in the elements of Latin. The tendency was to confine the instruction to those who devoted themselves to the monastic profession. But this tendency was counteracted by the necessity of having parish priests who knew enough Latin to read the church services. The monastic schools were almost the only places in which such an education could be secured. The church councils were active in providing for such in struction. Boniface exerted himself to institute schools in the F rankish kingdom. He had himself been a teacher, and had written text-books. As he found the monks and nuns unfit to give instruction, he summoned teachers from England, his old home. This importation of teachers is especially important, because in England, as we learn from the Venerable Bede, a more liberal idea of education and of the use of the classics had pre''vailed.'' Yet it is worthy of attention that Boniface in his letters shows no trace of interest in, or special knowledge of, the classics.''
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Dana Carleton Munro
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