Alison John

Thanks to its long educational tradition and its reputation for pedagogical excellence, Gaul serves as an ideal experimental laboratory for studying the cultural transformations that education underwent in the Western world during Late Antiquity. Henri-Irénée Marrou’s seminal work,[1] its sequel written by his student Pierre Riché,[2] and T.J. Haarhoff’s study on schools in Gaul,[3] which serves as a logical starting point for this research, remain fundamental contributions.

[Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.] This volume arose from a 2016 postgraduate conference on books, libraries, and ancient and medieval textual transmission. This incredibly broad range of topics meant that the editors had to make a serious effort to impose order on the collected papers, organizing them into three main sections.