Grammar Schools in Late Medieval Castile (13th-15th Centuries)

This paper aims to determine the main features that defined the so-called grammar schools in the Crown of Castile in the context of the Late Medieval European school system. The analysis of the limited extant information that has been collected about the foundation, funding, appointment of masters and school syllabuses seeks to establish similarities and differences. Although both exist, the current study stresses the existence of a complex and diverse school system that the Late Medieval Castilian cities shared with the Crown of Aragon and other medieval European kingdoms. Some of the parameters used to rebuild the syllabus at the said schools reveal the influence of the Studia humanitatis curriculum and its contribution to the shaping of civic values in the urban culture of the Late Middle Ages.