Excerpt from The History of Mediaeval Education: An Account of the Course of Educational Opinion and Practice From the Sixth to the Fifteenth Centuries, Inclusive The publication of this volume completes the series of lectures on the history of education given by Prof. Williams at Cornell university, and the first appear ance in English of histories of ancient and mediaeval education. Although issued after the author's death, the manuscript was SO careful and matured and exact that it has been easy to present his record just as he wrote it. In so doing the publisher feels that he has made a distinct and needed addition to educational literature. 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.