Centres of Learning: Learning and Location in Pre-Modern Europe and the Near East

Review "The book is persuasive and surprisingly detailed considering its great scope."Leonard R.N. Ashley, Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 1995. Product Description The contributors in this book deal with various aspects of learning, in a broad historical and geographical perspective, which ranges from Ancient Babylon, via classical Greece and Rome, and the Middle East (both Christian and Islamic), through to the Latin and vernacular cultures of the Christian West in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. About the Author Jan Willem Drijvers, Ph.D. (1989) in Ancient History, University of Groningen, where he is Lecturer in Ancient History. He has published in the area of Late Antiquity, in particular on the Empress Helena (Helena Augusta, the Mother of Constantine the Great and the Legend of her Finding of the True Cross, (Brill, 1992).Alasdair MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) in English, University of Edinburgh, is professor of English Language and Literature of the Middle Ages, University of Groningen. He has published on various aspects of medieval English (especially Middle Scots) literature.