Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220

A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth.

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...