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Reviews Reviews Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald (eds.), Centres of Learning. Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East . Brill, Leiden 1995 xiv 340 pp. ISBN 90 04 10193 4 (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 61). The Centre for Classical, Oriental, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies (COMERS) at the University of Groningen, is an interdisciplinary research institute organized around the general project, “Knowledge and the Transmission of Knowledge from ancient times through to the Renaissance, in both East and West.” This volume represents papers origi- nally presented at an international conference at Groningen, marking the establishment of COMERS as a research institute in 1993. Organized according to four major themes, “From an Antique Land,” “Ex oriente Lux,” “Cloisters and Schools,” and “Expanding Horizons,” the collection consists of twenty-six articles all published in English, ranging from the estab- lishment of two major schools or academies by Shulgi, king of the Third Dynasty of Ur c. 2100-2000 BCE and the Eduba curriculum, which o V ered “the Ž rst articulated and explicit generic system of literature, not merely on record, but in history as such,” (16) to the in uence of the Scottisch Chapel Royal on education http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vivarium Brill

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Brill
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© 1998 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0042-7543
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1568-5349
DOI
10.1163/156853498323241394
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Reviews Jan Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald (eds.), Centres of Learning. Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East . Brill, Leiden 1995 xiv 340 pp. ISBN 90 04 10193 4 (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, 61). The Centre for Classical, Oriental, Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies (COMERS) at the University of Groningen, is an interdisciplinary research institute organized around the general project, “Knowledge and the Transmission of Knowledge from ancient times through to the Renaissance, in both East and West.” This volume represents papers origi- nally presented at an international conference at Groningen, marking the establishment of COMERS as a research institute in 1993. Organized according to four major themes, “From an Antique Land,” “Ex oriente Lux,” “Cloisters and Schools,” and “Expanding Horizons,” the collection consists of twenty-six articles all published in English, ranging from the estab- lishment of two major schools or academies by Shulgi, king of the Third Dynasty of Ur c. 2100-2000 BCE and the Eduba curriculum, which o V ered “the Ž rst articulated and explicit generic system of literature, not merely on record, but in history as such,” (16) to the in uence of the Scottisch Chapel Royal on education

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