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 (volume V in
the series), 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 (volume VII in the series) 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 (and to changes in
scholarship, in the European West) from the early Middle Ages throught
to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines discussed include:
literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education.