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Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire

Chapter 38: I. Original Authorities.
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The study examines education in late Roman Gaul during its transition from pagan public schooling to Christian instruction, showing how Roman rhetorical and legal frameworks kept Latin uniform even as social change, ethnic mixing, and the decline of Greek reshaped curricula. It surveys methods of teaching language and history, the clergy's shift to simpler idiom to reach vernacular audiences, and the transmission of Roman pedagogy into medieval institutions. The work also considers the effects of political disorder on schools and revisits contemporary sources to correct misconceptions and illuminate the period's educational dynamics.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. Original Authorities.

(a) Pagan.

(Teubner Series, unless otherwise stated.)

Ammianus.

Aulus Gellius.

Ausonius (for a full bibliography to Ausonius see Prolegomena to an edition of the works of D. M. Ausonius, Sister M. J. Byrne, 1916).

Caesar.

Cicero (esp. De Oratore and Brutus).

Claudius Claudianus.

Codex Theodosianus, ed. Mommsen and Meyer, with the old but valuable commentaries of Gothofredus and Ritter.

Diodorus (Dübner).

Galen, ed. Kühn.

Grammatici Latini, ed. Keil (esp. Servius).

Grammaticae Romanae Fragmenta (1907).

Horace.

Isocrates.

Justinus, ed. Benecke.

Juvenal, with Mayor’s Commentary.

Leges Visigothorum (Monumenta Germaniae Historiae).

Libanius, Orations, ed. Reiske.

Libanius, Letters, ed. Seeck.

Lucian.

Macrobius.

Martial.

Panegyrici Latini (1911).

Petronius, ed. Littré.

Pliny, Naturalis Historia.

Pliny, Panegyric, Letters.

Plutarch, Lives.

Quintilian.

Rhetores Graeci.

Rutilius Namatianus.

Die Schriften der römischen Feldmesser, ed. Mommsen.

Scriptores Historiae Augustae.

Seneca, Suasoriae et Controversiae.

Seneca (the philosopher), Epistulae.

Sidonius, with Dalton’s Introduction to his translation of the Letters.

Strabo (Dübner).

Suetonius, De Grammaticis, De Rhetoribus.

Symmachus, ed. Seeck.

Tacitus.

(b) Christian.

(Migne’s Series, unless otherwise stated.)

Ad Uxorem.

Augustine, Confessions, ed. Knöll; and esp. De Ordine, De Doctrina, Principia Rhetorices.

Avitus, Monumenta Germaniae Historiae.

Caesarius.

Cassian.

Cassiodorus, Variae.

Claudianus Mamertus (Corpus Scriptt. Eccles. Lat.).

De Providentia Dei.

Ennodius (Corpus Scriptt. Eccles. Lat.).

Eucherius.

Gennadius, De viris illustribus.

Hilary of Arles.

Hilary of Poitiers.

Isidore of Seville.

Jerome, esp. Letters.

Paulinus of Nola (Corpus Scriptt. Eccles. Lat.).

Paulinus of Pella (Corpus Scriptt. Eccles. Lat.).

Prudentius.

Remigius.

Salvian.

Sedulius.

Socrates.

Sozomen.

Tertullian.

Theodoret.

Victor of Marseilles.

(c) Inscriptions.

Boissieu, Inscriptions de Lyon.

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.

Le Blant, Nouveau Recueil de l’Épigraphie chrétienne.

Pirson, La Langue des Inscriptions latines de la Gaule.

II. Modern Authorities.

(a) Works of Reference.

Archiv für lateinische Lexicographie, ed. Wölfflin.

Blümner, Römische Privatalterthümer.

Boquet, Recueil des Historiens, tom. 1.

Cramer, Geschichte der Erziehung.

Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités.

Desjardins, Géographie historique de la Gaule.

Dreves, Lateinische Hymnendichter des Mittelalters.

Ebert, Geschichte der Litteratur des Mittelalters.

Espérandieu, Les bas-reliefs de la Gaule Romaine.

Grasberger, Erziehung u. Unterricht im klassischen Alterthum.

Gröber, Grundriss der romanischen Philologie.

Head, Historia Numorum (1911).

Hefele, Conciliengeschichte.

Histoire littéraire de la France.

Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer.

Paul, Grundriss der germanischen Philologie.

Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie.

Schanz, Geschichte der römischen Litteratur.

Teuffel-Schwabe, History of Roman Literature (transl. Warr).

(b) Other Works.

Acta Sanctorum Ordinis Benedictini (Bolland).

Barralis, Chronologia Sanctorum et aliorum virorum illustrium atque abbatum sacrae insulae Lerinensis (1613).

Bertrand, Saint Augustin (transl.).

Boissier, La Fin du Paganisme; Tacite.

Bulaeus, Historia Universitatis Parisiensis.

Bury, Roman Empire.

Cambridge Mediaeval History.

Cantor, Die römischen Agrimensoren.

Denk, Geschichte des gallo-fränkischen Unterrichts- u. Bildungswesens.

Fauriel, Histoire de la Gaule méridionale.

Frank, Roman Imperialism.

Freeman, Historical Essays.

Freeman, Methods of Historical Study.

Freeman, Western Europe during the Fifth Century.

Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ed. Bury.

Glover, Life and Letters in the Fourth Century.

Guizot, History of Civilization (tr. Hazlitt).

Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders.

Holmes, Christian Church in Gaul.

Jullian, Histoire de Bordeaux.

Jullian, Histoire de la Gaule.

Jullian, Les Premières Universités françaises (Rev. internat. de l’Enseignement, 1893).

Jung, De Scholis Romanis in Gallia Comata.

Kaufmann, Rhetoren- u. Klosterschulen in Gallien während des 5. und 6. Jahrhunderts.

Lavisse, Histoire de France.

Monnard, De Gallorum oratorio ingenio.

Montalembert, The Monks of the West (transl.)

Norden, Die antike Kunstprosa (2nd ed.).

Ozanam, History of Civilization in the Fifth Century (transl.).

Pichon, Études sur l’Histoire de la littérature latine dans les Gaules.

Puech, De Paulini Nolani Ausoniique epistolarum commercio.

Rocafort, Paulin de Pella.

Speck, Quaestiones Ausonianae.

Watson, E. W., Hilary of Poitiers (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers).

Woodward, Christianity and Nationalism in the later Roman Empire (1916).