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The transmission of data in clerical and educational settings of the later center a while has been rather good studied through conventional scholarship. yet successes accomplished in different topic components by way of program of a suite of methodologies grouped below the rubric of 'gender stories' provided desire that helpful insights may come from software of those methodologies to medieval schooling. This strategy invited a re-evaluation in gender-political phrases of the definition of information through clerical elites and the concomitant rejection from the class of 'knowledge' of many sorts of information which failed to coincide with their template. This altered view of elite schooling used to be attended by means of a brand new delineation of the realm of information in groups of girls who have been, in various levels, sited at the margins of the elite academic groups. Such questions because the following emerged in communications via contributors of the examine crew and have been again and again raised during dialogue: what forms of wisdom have been to be had to groups of girls? What forms of wisdom originated in or turned attribute of women's groups? What innovations did ladies improve to maintain and transmit their wisdom? In what methods and with what luck used to be women's wisdom valorized, either by means of authors from inside of those groups and by way of 'authoritative' figures from outdoor? below what situations may possibly ladies develop into authoritative originators of and transmitters of data?

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88, in Opera Omnia (Rome: Leonine Commission, 1930), XV, p. 10, in Opera Omnia (Rome; St Sabina, 1971), XIVIII, pp. 1, p. 397; Nicole Oresme, Le Livre de politiques d'Aristote, ed. s. 60, part 6 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1970), p. 73. RUTH MAZO KARRAS 28 women. Rather, women were notable by their absence from the discourse as well as from the disputation’s setting. In discussing the quodlibetal questions I am lumping together scholars who wrote at different times spanning a century, were members of different orders, and took different sides in theological debates.

464–69. 2 Strongly opposed to Ringler’s approach is Peter Dinzelbacher, ‘Zur Interpretation erlebnismystischer Texte des Mittelalters’, in Dinzelbacher, Mittelalterliche Frauenmystik (Paderborn: Schöningh, 1993), pp. 304–31 (a revised version of the same article first published in 1988). For a recent review of this controversy within American scholarship see Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, ‘Can God Speak in the Vernacular? On Beatrice of Nazareth's Flemish Exposition of the Love for God’, in The Vernacular Spirit.

The master would then ‘determine’ the disputation by summing up and giving his own view of the question. These disputations usually took place weekly at certain times of the university calendar. There were also ‘quodlibetal’ disputations held at certain times of the year, where participation was not limited to a master's own students. There was no set topic and anyone could put forward a question. 6 The 3 Bernardo C. Bazan, ‘Les Questions disputées, principalement dans les facultés de théologie’, and John F.

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