The project “Stockholm’s Learned World” explores the city’s intellectual environments in depth. The starting point is collections of books from the city’s Greyfriars and Blackfriars monasteries.
During the Middle Ages, scholarship flourished, characterized by curiosity and a desire for experimentation, in all areas of science. Linguistics, philosophy, natural science, and theology had a common goal: to understand the world and humanity’s role as God’s creation.
This composite view of knowledge developed and spread across the continent through monasteries, cathedral schools, and universities. But did this continental education also reach the trading city of Stockholm? And how was the medieval worldview spread to the city’s inhabitants?