Abstract
This chapter reviews the book A Scholar’s Paradise. Teaching and Debating in Medieval Paris (2015), by Olga Weijers. The book provides a detailed picture of the origins, structure, and development of the academic community in Paris in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, with particular emphasis on the faculty of arts. It consists of fifteen chapters covering topics such as the administrative structure and curriculum of the various faculties; the classification of knowledge, the branches of learning, and the content of teaching in the various disciplines; methods of teaching and the skills of analysis and argumentation; the lectio and the questio; and the different types of disputation. Weijers also examines academic ceremonies and events and presents a biography of a scholarly career in the thirteenth century, using that of Robert Kilwardby.
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