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In Search For ’Higher Education’ In Byzantium
In Search For ’Higher Education’ In Byzantium

Author(s): Athanasios Markopoulos
Subject(s): History
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: Antecessores; enkyklios paideia; exedra; higher education; law school; Magnaura; Pandidakterion; schools; scholastikoi; grammatikos; theatron

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to present and critically investigate the development of the socalled ‘higher education’ in the Byzantine Empire. Some institutions will be examined, such as the teaching with public funding (the case of Themistios), the well-known Pandidakterion of the fi fth century, Magnaura in a much subsequent age, and, finally, the re-organization of education during the reign of Constantine IX Monomachos in the eleventh century, when, for the last time in its history, a case can be made for a higher education institution in Byzantium.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 50/1
  • Page Range: 28-44
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English