The Medieval Church · c. 1125–1130
The Didascalicon
Hugh of Saint Victor · c. 1096–1141
What it is
What to read and in what order, dividing all knowledge into theoretical, practical, mechanical, and logical, and insisting the mechanical arts belong in the scheme.
Why it lasted
The most important medieval work on education, and the first to grant the crafts a place in the map of knowledge.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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