In search for ’Higher education’ in Byzantium

Athanasios, Markopoulos

Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta

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http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0584-98881301029M

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This study aims to present and critically investigate the development of the socalled ‘higher education’ in the Byzantine Empire. Some institutions will be examined, such as the teaching with public funding (the case of Themistios), the well-known Pandidakterion of the fifth century, Magnaura in a much subsequent age, and, finally, the re-organization of education during the reign of Constantine IX Monomachos in the eleventh century, when, for the last time in its history, a case can be made for a higher education institution in Byzantium.

higher education, antecessores, enkyklios paideia, exedra, grammatikos, law school, Magnaura, Pandidakterion, scholastikoi, schools, theatron