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      • Laura Cleaver, Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin
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    • Publisher:
      Boydell & Brewer
      Publication date:
      May 2021
      March 2016
      ISBN:
      9781782046189
      9781783270859
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781782046189
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      • Series:
      Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
      Subjects:
      Art, History, British History Before 1066, Architecture
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    Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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    Art, History, British History Before 1066, Architecture
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    On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as onthe facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of student poverty and the temptations of drink and women tobe found in the cities where teachers were increasingly establishing themselves.
    This book considers how and why education was explored in the art and architecture of the twelfth century. Through analysis of imagery in a wide range of media, it examines how teachers and students sought to use images to enhance their reputations and the status of their studies. It also investigates how the ideal models often set out in imagery compared with contemporary practice in an era that saw significant changes, beginning with a shift away from monastic education and culminating in the appearance of the first universities.

    Laura Cleaver is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin.

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