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Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Alfred versus Danes

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After establishing the Danelaw that was supposed to bring peace between the Danes/Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons of the south, Alfred thought ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

The Inns of Court

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To my surprise, I have used "law" or "laws" (should really get around to combining them) as keywords in 43 posts (out of...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

The Five-Paragraph Essay

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Found on Pinterest...seriously The five-paragraph essay was treated as the cornerstone of English classes when I was growing up: it was ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

The College of Sorbonne

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A university meeting Today is the birthday of the founder of the Sorbonne. The Collège of Sorbonne is arguably the best-known college in...
Monday, May 20, 2013

The Liberal Alcuin of York

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Tiffany window of Charlemagne and Alcuin at LaFayette College (1898) Alcuin of York has been mentioned before, primarily in his relat...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Parochial School

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One of the decrees that came out of the Fourth Lateran Council of Pope Innocent III was that "every cathedral or other church of suffi...
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Grammar

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"Grammar" comes from the Greek gramma , meaning "letter of the alphabet" or "thing written." Their word gramma...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

"Grammar" "School"—Part 2 of 2

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Yesterday we looked at the use of the word "school" in the Middle Ages. Today, let's look at the descriptive term "gram...