The thirteenth, greatest of centuries / by James J. Walsh.

  • Walsh, James J. (James Joseph), 1865-1942.
Date:
1907
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The thirteenth, greatest of centuries / by James J. Walsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I . INTRODUCTION, THE THIRTEENTH, GREATEST OF CENTURIES. Deeds and men of a marvellous period. Evolution and man. No intellectual development in historical period. The wonderful medieval pre-renaissance. Our Gothic ancestors. Education for •the classes and masses. Universities, cathedrals, arts, and crafts. Origins in art. Supreme literature in every language. Origins in law and liberty. Beginnings of modern democracy. . . 1 CHAPTER II UNIVERSITIES AND PREPARATORY SCHOOLS. Origins of universities. Triumph of invention. Character un¬ changed ever since. University evolution, Salerno, Bologna, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, Italian, French and Spanish Universi¬ ties. Origin of preparatory schools. Cathedral colleges. Decree of the Council of Lateran, every cathedral to have a school and metropolitan churches to have colleges. Attendance at these •preparatory schools. ......... 18 CHAPTER III WHAT AND HOW THEY STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITIES. Education of the Middle Ages usually ridiculed. Ignorance of critics. Scholastics laughed at by those only who know them, but at second hand. “Logic, ethics and metaphysics owe to scholas¬ ticism a precision, unknown to the ancients themselves’’ (Condor- cet.) Teaching methods. Scholarly interests quite as in our own day. Magnetism in literature. A magnetic engine. Aquinas and the indestructibility of matter and the conservation of energy. Roger Bacon’s four grounds of human ignorance. Prophecy of explosives for motor purposes. Correction of the calendar. Contri- 'butions to optics. Experiment as the basis of scientific knowledge. Whewell’s appreciation. Albertus Magnus and the natural sciences. Humboldt’s praise for his physical geography. Contributions to ‘botany. Declaration with regard to foolish popular notions. The