When universities were first created in medieval times, they were mainly communities of ecclesiastical scholars.
Fortunately, the ecclesiastical scholars were not as hostile to the native lore as were their counterparts abroad, and they appear to have been eager to commit it to writing.
Rather, like all "theses" in those days, they were points to be thrashed out in public disputations, in the manner of the ecclesiastical scholars of the twelfth century or, for that matter, the debate clubs of tradition-minded universities in our own time.
His interest in education, and his reputation as a collector of books and relics, attracted a cosmopolitan group of ecclesiastical scholars to his court, particularly Bretons and Irish.
This was the age of the antiquarian, the amateur scholar, the ecclesiastical polyglot, the obsessed bibliophile.
This was the age of the antiquarian, the amateur scholar, the ecclesiastical polyglot, the obsessed bibliophile….
Other scholars, such as ecclesiastical historian H. M. Gwatkin, explain Philip's alleged visit to the church as evidence of simple "curiosity".
With only a fragment of his Apology for Christianity still extant, preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the 4th-century scholar Eusebius of Caesarea, Quadratus has not been clearly identified.
November 30, 1637 Paris, France January 10 , 1698Tillemont, France Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, in full Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (born Nov. 30, 1637, Paris, France died Jan . 10 , 1698Tillemont) French ecclesiastical historian who was one of the earliest scholars to provide a rigorous appraisal of preceding historical writing.
December 22, 1646 Quimper, France September 3, 1729 Paris, France Jean Hardouin, (born Dec. 22, 1646, Quimper, France died Sept. 3, 1729, Paris) French Jesuit scholar who edited numerous secular and ecclesiastical works, most notably the texts of the councils of the Christian church.
As an editor and expositor of classical texts and the writings of the Church Fathers, as a commentator on the ecclesiastical conflicts of his time, and as a scholar, wit, and satirist, he was unsurpassed by any humanist in northern Europe.
