Sunday, June 2, 2024

notes: Scholastic and Monastic

https://rationemspe.blogspot.com/2024/06/leclercq-monastic-schools.html

 First, p 3 distinction between scholastic and monastic schools in 12th century

Monastic:

  • "interior" -- for monks
  • Abbot/Father is teacher
  • Read Scripture and Fathers
  • Liturgical framework
  • "contemplative" culture
  • In monastery, for "claustrales", cloistered

Bernard:

  • Talked in first person
  • instruction, words of wisdom
  • asceticism
  • savoring, clinging, desire
  • prayer
Exterior schools, scholae
  • For clerics
  • Liberal arts --Trivium and Quadrivium
  • Quaestiones
  • Scholastic
  • Urban/ cities 
  • Near Cathedrals
  • "Active Life"
  • Disputes, questions of the time

Peter Lombard
  • Goal to "acquire knowledge"
  • quaestio/ quareritur
  • Divisions
  • Terms defined
  • Objective

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