Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East

FROM AN ANTIQUE LAND On the Old Babylonian Eduba Curriculum, H.L.J. Vanstiphout Learning and Power during the Sargonid Period', M.E. Vogelzang The Family and Other Centres of Religious Learning in Antiquity, Jan N. Bremmer The Christian 'School' of Alexandria in the Second and Third Centuries, Roelof van den Broek The School of Edessa: Greek Learning and Local Culture, Han J.W. Drijvers EX ORIENTE LUX Eastward and Westward Transmission of Classical Rhetoric, John W. Watt 'Edessa grew dim and Nisibis shone forth': The School of Nisibis at the Transition of the Sixth-Seventh Century, G.J. Reinink The Koran and its Exegesis: from Memorising to Learning, Fred Leemhuis Arabic Didactic Verse, Geert Jan van Gelder The Classification of the Sciences and the Consolidation of Philology in Classical Islam, Wolfhart Heinrichs Baghdad, Bologna, and Scholasticism, George Makdisi CLOISTERS AND SCHOOLS Old Law and New-Found Power: Hrabanus Maurus and the Old Testament, Mayke de Jong Scientific and Spiritual Culture in Hugh of St Victor, Jan W.M. van Zwieten Andrew of St Victor (d.1175): Scholar between Cloister and School, F.A. van Liere Learning by Experience: Twelfth-Century Monastic Ideas, I. van 't Spijker The Development of Lombardian Theology, 1160-1215, Marcia L. Colish Academic Heresy and Intellectual Freedom at the University of Paris, 1200-1378, J.M.M.H. Thijssen Ludwig the Bavarian and the Scholars, Dick E.H. de Boer The Reclusorium as an Informal Centre of Learning, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker John Bromyard and the Hereford Dominicans, Peter Binkley EXPANDING HORIZONS Classical Learning and the Building of Power at the Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Court, A.J. Vanderjagt Aucuns Petis Enseignemens: 'Homemade' Courtesy Books in Medieval France, Anne Marie De Gendt The Renaissance Household as Centre of Learning, A.A. MacDonald The Scottish Chapel Royal as Cultural Intermediary between Town and Court, Theo van Heijnsbergen 'Liberation from the Trivial Yoke': Dutch Renaissance Educators and their Cultural and Socio-Political Objectives, Catrien Santing Latin Literature in Early Modern Groningen, F. Akkerman Notes on Contributors