H. I. Marrou's A History of Education in Antiquity has been an invaluable contribution in the fields of classical studies and history ever since its original pu

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

This volume examines the idea of ancient education in a series of essays which span the archaic period to late antiquity. It calls into question the idea that e

Education in Late Antiquity explores how the Christian and pagan writers of the Graeco-Roman world between c. 300 and 550 CE rethought the role of intellectual