ABSTRACT
The classic work on monastic culture is Jean Leclercq's The Love of Learning and the Desire for God, translated by Catharine Misrahi (New York, 1961). Hastings Rashdall, The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, revised edition by F. M. Powicke and A. B. Emden, 3 vols (Oxford, 1936) remains the fullest treatment in English. Charles Homer Haskins, The Rise of the Universities, (Providence, RI, 1923; revised edition Ithaca, NY, 1957), is a brief, readable introduction as is John W. Baldwin, The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 100{}-13 00 (Lexington, Mass., 1971). For an elementary survey of medieval universities see Lowrie J. Daly, The Medieval University (New York, 1961). A. B. Cobban, The Medieval Universities: Their Development and Organization (London, 1975), is a more advanced survey. Gordon Leff, Paris and Oxford Universities in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries. An Institutional and Intellectual History (New York, 1968) is a rich and detailed comparative study of two great northern universities. For contemporary documents on university organization and student life see Lynn Thorndyke, University Records and Life in the Middle Ages, Records of Civilization, Sources and Studies, vol. 38 (New York, 1944; reprinted 1975). An amusing and instructive source on the revival of learning two generations before the rise of the universities is Peter Abelard's account of his career, called the History ofmy Calamities (Historia Calamitatum). There are several translations including The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, translated by Betty Radice (Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1974), pp. 57-106. A readable account of what medieval scholars studied can be found in Frederick B. Artz, The Mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 20{}-1500, 2nd edn (New York, 1954).
