John of Garland

Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland (c. 1190 – c. 1270) was a medieval grammarian and university teacher.

Quotes

• Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix,
    Matri nutricem praefero mente meam.
  Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia justis
    Attribuo, niteant ut probitate pares.
  • Although my mother was England, France was my nurse, and I prefer my nurse to my mother.
  • De triumphis ecclesiae (ed. Thomas Wright, 1856), l. 7, as translated by Louis John Paetow, Two Medieval Satires on the University of Paris: 'La Bataille des VII Ars' of Henri d'Andeli and the 'Morale Scolarium' of John of Garland (University of California Press, 1927) p. 85, footnote

External links

• Encyclopedic article on John of Garland on Wikipedia