The new disciplines that emerged in the Carolingian period and those that changed their approach to suit the Palatine School had a didactic character, but this is not perceived in the same way in texts that were prepared for a specific pedagogical purpose
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Dicuil, Cosmography, Carolingian Renaissance, Education.Abstract
The new disciplines that emerged in the Carolingian period and those that changed their approach to suit the Palatine School had a didactic character, but this is not perceived in the same way in texts that were prepared for a specific pedagogical purpose. Making use of legend and symbolism to achieve their goal, these works signal the beginning of critical thinking and the restructuring of scientific knowledge, which laid the foundations of a science that began in the ninth century through manuals such as the Liber de mensura orbis terrae by Dicuil. This Irish scholar went beyond continuing the texts of Pliny and Solinus, his direct sources, by attempting to understand the earth and its spatial configuration through the way in which he transmitted his understanding to his pupils, and by contributing the knowledge gleaned from his own experiences in a finite world. In this paper I present several passages from the Liber de mensura to support this new analysis of Dicuil’s work.
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