BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
=1. Additional Readings from the Sources.=
MUNRO, D.C. _The Mediaeval Student_. (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Vol. II, No. 3.) The student should not fail to procure this little pamphlet, which is a necessary supplement to several of the readings in the present collection. It contains useful explanatory notes as well as important doc.u.ments.
Price, ten cents. Longmans, Green & Co., New York City.
ROBINSON, J.H. _Readings in European History_. Vol. I, chap.
xix, and especially pp. 446-461. Readings on Abelard, Aristotle in the Universities, Roger Bacon.
HENDERSON, E.F. _Select Historical Doc.u.ments of the Middle Ages_, pp. 262-266. Charter of the University of Heidelberg, 1386.
=2. General References on the History of Mediaeval Universities.=
RASHDALL, HASTINGS. _The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages_. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1895. 1273 pages, 2 vols. in three parts. Much the best work on the subject; based on the sources. Indispensable for reference.
MULLINGER, J.B. _Encyclopedia Britannica_, Art. _Universities._ "The first tolerably correct (though very brief) account which has appeared in English." Includes university history to 1882.
_Encyclopedia Britannica_ and other encyclopedias. The student who may not have access to works mentioned in this list is reminded that brief accounts of the men and the subjects here considered are often to be found in good encyclopedias.
=3. Bibliographies.=
The best single collection of references to the extensive literature of the subject is in Rashdall"s work, though this does not include books and articles published since 1895. Compayre (see below) includes a brief list. References to sources and secondary works on the Seven Liberal Arts are published by Abelson; references relating to university text-books of Greek origin by Loomis (see below).
=4. Text-books.=
COMPAYRe, G. _Abelard and the Origin and Early History of Universities._ New York: Charles Scribner"s Sons, 1892.
Still the best single text-book for cla.s.s use. Contains numerous errors, which should be corrected by comparison with Rashdall.
WOODWARD, W.H., _editor_. _Mediaeval Schools and Universities._ Cambridge Contributions to Modern History, I. New York: G.P. Putnam"s Sons. This work, which is still in preparation, will probably supersede Compayre.
5. References to Special Topics.
All of the topics treated in this collection of readings are discussed by Rashdall and Compayre. Page references may be found by use of the indexes appended to their books.
=Introduction=. On the historical point of view see J.H. ROBINSON, _Readings in European History_, Vol. I, Chap. I; on the place and use of doc.u.ments, and other questions relating to the study of history, LANGLOIS and SEIGn.o.bOS, _Introduction to the Study of History_.
=Abelard=. MCCABE, JOSEPH. _Abelard_. A scholarly study, in brilliant style. Chaps. I-IV deal with Abelard as a teacher. The best biography in English.
=John of Salisbury=. POOLE, R.L. _Ill.u.s.trations of the History of Mediaeval Thought_, pa.s.sim. National Dictionary of Biography, Art. _John of Salisbury_.
=University Studies=. ABELSON, PAUL. _The Seven Liberal Arts_. The best study in English. Contains much information regarding university text-books in these subjects.
LOOMIS, LOUISE R. _Mediaeval h.e.l.lenism_. Valuable information concerning the history and the translations of the works of Aristotle, Galen, Hippocrates, and other Greek writers. ZELLER, E. _Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics_. The standard treatise on the works of Aristotle, and their history.
The student is earnestly advised to spend a few hours in examining such copies of the mediaeval text-books as he may find in his college library. The time thus spent will do far more to clarify his ideas as to their character and extent than much talk about them. Old editions, often with the commentaries, may be available; some libraries possess MS. copies. Translations of the more important works of Aristotle may be found by reference to the library catalogue; among these may be mentioned _the Rhetoric_, by J.E.C. Welldon; the _Politics_, by B.
Jowett; the _Ethics_ (Nicomachean), by F.H. Peters; the _Poetics_, by S.H. Butcher. Of the _Corpus Juris Civilis_, the _Inst.i.tutes_ have been translated by T.C. Sandars; the first part of the _Digest_ by C.H.
Monro. The _Corpus Juris Canonici_ as it was known in the middle ages has not been translated. This is true also of most books on the Seven Liberal Arts. Some works of Galen and Hippocrates have been done into English; but these translations are old, and probably inaccurate.
=Academic Letters=. HASKINS, C.H. _The Life of Mediaeval Students as Ill.u.s.trated by their Letters_. American Historical Review, 1897-1898. A brief but important study, from the sources; refers to several of the letters here printed.