Universidad medieval y enciclopedia del saber: implicaciones antropológicas

Abstract

Far of the topics about the so called medieval «obscurantism», the global sociocultural dynamic of the XI-XIII centuries is unequivocally humanist, although its main problems consists in conserving the inherited Christian tradition, rejuvenating as well as enriching it with the arabian science and the aristotelian thought, known in their splendour. The creation of the University, the reconstruction of the know ledges with the guide of the Theology in the education of medieval man, can be better understood, looking at them from tbe basic confrontation of two conceptions of the man as «image of God»: one of them, tending to the submission, and the other one, tending to the autonomy. Between both tendencies, the great figures as Anselmo, Thomas or Scot will mediate an agreement. They do it in different moments of the process and from different suppositions. But they all transmit to us a model based in the complementary hierarchization of bot perspectives.