Abstract

The present volume, number VI in the series «Groningen Studies in Cultural Change», offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in Groningen in November 2001. It is the second of three volumes. The first, entitled «Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West» has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The third one bears the title «Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1600-1960» and will be edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen. The present volume, «Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages», contains new studies on a wide range of matters pertaining to scholarship from the early Middle Ages throught to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines discussed include: literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education.