The Intellectual Properties of Learning: A Prehistory from Saint Jerome to John Locke

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Year of Publication
2017
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Number of Pages
368 pp.
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
City
Chicago, IL
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ISBN
9780226487922
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Contents: 

  • The commonwealth of learning
  • Monastery and school
  • The medieval monastic paradox
  • Learning in the early middle ages
  • The patronage of medieval learning
  • The learned turn of the high middle ages
  • University and academy
  • The translation movements of Islamic learning
  • The medieval universities of Oxford and Paris
  • Humanist revival
  • Learned academies and societies
  • Early modern Oxford and Cambridge
  • Locke and property
  • A theory of property
  • An act for the encouragement of learning