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In his wise and humane Didascalicon, the teacher, canon regular, and mystical theologian Hugh of St. Victor lays out his advice and instructions for teachers and students engaged in liberal study. The heir of centuries of thought in Christendom on the liberal arts, Hugh and his contemporaries were on the precipice of a revolution--the western rediscovery of Aristotle and the subsequent revolution of theology and philosophy, championed above all by Thomas Aquinas. University of Dallas professor John Peterson joins Jonathan and Ryan to discuss the Didascalicon and its role in liberal education.

Classical Education Graduate Program at the University of Dallas: https://udallas.edu/braniff/academics/ma/classical_education/

Richard M. Gamble’s The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO

Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon (Latin): http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/1096-1141,_Hugo_De_S_Victore,_Didascalicon,_LT.pdf

Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon (English): https://archive.org/details/didascaliconmedi00hugh/mode/2up

Bruce A. Kimball's The Liberal Arts Tradition: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780761851325

Ryan N.S. Topping's Renewing the Mind: https://amzn.to/41xlb08

W.H. Cowley's The Seven Liberal Arts Hoax: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27565196

New Humanists episode on Giambattista Vico: https://podcasts.apple.com/hr/podcast/messing-up-your-kids-education-episode-xxxviii/id1570296135?i=1000591833664

Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion 3.0: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781119712619

John Peterson's Review of Teach Like a Champion 3.0: https://www.pdcnet.org/principia/content/principia_2022_0001_0001_0119_0123+

Plato's Republic: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780465094080

Augustine's Confessions: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780199537822

Livy's Ab Urbe Condita: https://amzn.to/3gYwtbh

Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy: https://amzn.to/3NtNBSj

Jacob Klein's The Idea of Liberal Education: https://www.scribd.com/document/46831695/The-Idea-of-Liberal-Education-Jacob-Klein

Martianus Capella's The Marriage of Philology and Mercury: https://amzn.to/41NZh8t

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