The canonists, of course, worried about this matter and were aware of the
patristic and early conciliar prohibitions on reading secular literature.
For C11 examples you might look, for instance, at Ivo of Chartres,
_Panormia_ 2.130-37 (PL 161:1114-16) and also his _Decretum_ 4.160-67 (PL
161:302-303). In the mid-C12 Gratian (ca. 1140 ff.) tried to reach a
balanced view on the subject; see his _Decretum_, esp. D. 37. You might
also want to look at J. Joseph Ryan, _Saint Peter Damiani and His Canonical
Sources: A Preliminary Study in the Antecedents of the Gregorian Reform_,
Studies and Texts, vol. 2 (Toronto: PIMS, 1956), but perhaps you have
already done so.
At 12:54 PM 2/16/00 +1100, you wrote:
>This is a fairly general query. I am a graduate student, studying
>the writings of Otloh of St Emmeram. I have been looking at a long
>standing question as to the meaning of Otloh's objections to the
>liberal arts. I have also been looking at similar objections in the
>works of Manegold of Lautenbach and Peter Damian, with whom Otloh is
>usually compared. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding further
>reading in this area, primary or secondary? Do any list readers know
>any other references for objections to the study of the liberal
>arts, particularly in the eleventh century but also in the medieval
>period more generally?
>
>
James A. Brundage
History & Law
University of Kansas
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