Talk:Byzantine university

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Which Eustathius is that? Eustathius Macrembolites and Eustathius of Thessalonica would both fit. Adam Bishop 15:19, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DMA doesn't make clear, but I'm pretty sure Eustathius of Thessalonica. The WP article suggests E. of Thessalonica was a professor, and the Patriarchal School was the most important school at the time. The DMA says he was a "man of letters" and this bio says "His letters, of which 75 have been published, give us a vivid picture of the time"]. -- Stbalbach 17:04, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever added the comment "Byzantine universities had no autonomous and continuing institutions of higher learning comparable to the universities of the later Middle Ages in Western Europe" have the goodness to explain how the medieval universities could be truly autonomous when the most important faculty was that of theology and many where under the direct control of the local catholic authorities and in what precise sense the Byzantine institution is wont of being "continuing".SBN4004 (talk) 23:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]