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Gibson, Margaret, “Milestones in the study of Priscian, circa 800–circa 1200”, Viator 23 (1992): 17–34.

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“Milestones in the study of Priscian, circa 800–circa 1200”
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23
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17–34
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Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae, much the most detailed Latin grammar available to early medieval Europe, began to replace the Ars grammaticae of Donatus about 800, and remained dominant until the mid-twelfth century. Section 1 of this article deals with the key figures who established that dominance in the Carolingian era, how they studied Priscian, and developed commentaries on the text. Section 2 contrasts the more sophisticated interests and techniques of the "modern scholars" of the eleventh and earlier twelfth centuries. The last of these was Petrus Helias. Subsequent students of Priscian, in their concern to elevate grammar to the scholastic level of logic, found the analysis of the Institutiones as a complete text irrelevant to their new concerns.
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