TY - BOOK ID - 718497 TI - Education in twelfth-century art and architecture : images of learning in Europe, c.1100-1220 PY - 2016 SN - 9781783270859 1783270853 9781782046189 1782046186 PB - Woodbridge Boydell Press DB - UniCat KW - History of education and educational sciences KW - education KW - Medieval [European] KW - art [fine art] KW - Art KW - anno 1100-1199 KW - anno 1200-1299 KW - Europe KW - Education, Medieval, in art. KW - Scholars in art. KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Erudition KW - Scholarship KW - Civilization KW - Intellectual life KW - Education KW - Learned institutions and societies KW - Research KW - Scholars KW - History KW - ART / History / General. KW - Education, Medieval KW - Education, Medieval. KW - HISTORY / Medieval. KW - Medieval. KW - 500-1500. KW - Europe. KW - Education, Medieval, in art KW - Scholars in art KW - 500-1500 KW - Medieval Period KW - Middle Ages KW - Council of Europe countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - art [discipline] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:718497 AB - 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 on the 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 to be 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. ER -