Excerpt from Education of the Laity in the Early Middle Ages The types of schools flourishing in each succeeding cen tury are reviewed in order to obtain an idea of their ex tent and the provision made in them for the education of the laity. What facilities were offered in the episcopal, parish, and palace schools, and in the monasteries before the formal establishment of the schools for externs, what was the effect of this establishment, and its significance as indicating the presence of large numbers of pupils in the monastic schools and the necessity of caring for them, are questions which demand even greater attention than those referring to the lay teachers and professions them selves. Care has been taken to treat only of those points in connection with individual schools which were of rather general application, or typical of certain countries or periods. This was called for by the order followed in the chapters which required that the European world of the time be kept in View, however much the accomplish ments of a great personal factor like Charlemagne or Alfred the Great might be emphasized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.