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The Medieval Church · 819
On the Education of the Clergy
De Institutione Clericorum
Rabanus Maurus · c. 780–856
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What it is
What a priest must know: the orders of ministry, the sacraments, the liturgical year, and then a full defence of studying grammar, rhetoric, and the pagan classics.
Why it lasted
The curriculum of the Carolingian schools set out in one book, and the standard answer to whether a Christian should read Virgil.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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