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194 THE MIDDLE AGES.
HENRY I. of France.. GERBERT D'AURILLAC,—when Pope
known as SYLVESTER II.—worked at the Episcopal School
of Rheims for some time as teacher of medicine.
At the Court of CHARLEMAGNE besides the Palace
"School in which the children of the Emperor and of certain
distinguished dignitaries were taught, there was a kind of
Academy numbering among its members the chief men of
learning of the time. In this capacity they bore special
names; ALCUIN was called FLACCUS, CHARLES himself
was KING DAVID. They devoted themselves to theology,
philosophy, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, Latin, Greek,
history, geography, and poetry.* This Academy appears
however to have existed only for a short time, whilst the
Court-school was still flourishing in the middle of the 9th
century. In the year 789 the Synod of Aix decided that
at the monastery and cathedral of that town there should
be formed a school in which boys might be able to learn|he
Psalms, writing, singing, the reckoning of ecclesiastical
festivals, and Latin grammar.t The pattern for this institution
was the school at Tours, where ALCUIN lived from 796
as Abbot of St. Martin's Monastery. There were celebrated
schools of this kind at Fulda, Hersfeld, Corvey, Reichenau,
St. Gallen, Mainz, Worms, Speyer, Koln, Miinster, Bremen,
Hildesheim, Magdeburg, Paderborn, Halberstadt, at
Salzburg, Freising, Passau, Tegernsee, Benedictbeuern,
Regensburg, at Milan, Parma and other places in Italy, as
also in many monasteries of France, in England, as at
Canterbury, and in Ireland.
The curriculum of the Roman schools formed the foundation
of the teaching in these institutions. Instruction was'
given in orderly succession and included in one department
the three elocutionary subjects of grammar, rhetoric,
and dialectics, and in the other arithmetic, geometry,
* W. F. C. SCIIMEIDLER: Die Hofschule und die Hof-Akademie Karls des
Gfossen, Breslau 1872.
t F. A. SPECHT : Geschichte des Unterrichtswesens in Deutschland von den
.altesten Zeiten bis zur Mitte des 13 Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart 1885, S. 21.