Medieval History

Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos gigantum umeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvehimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.


"Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature."

– John of Salisbury, Metalogicon 3,4,47–50

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Office

Anna Kessler

+49 228 / 73-5383

abteilung.mittelalter@uni-bonn.de

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Room 1.006
Institute of Historical Science
Department of Medieval History
Konviktstraße 11
53113 Bonn

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