This text deals with the relation between learning and the locations in which that learning is carried out. It proposes that the character (and, in part, the content) of a particular aspect of learning is determined - or at least influenced - by the circumstances in which the learning process took place. The contributions in this book deal with various aspects of learning. Coverage is broad historically and geographically, ranging from ancient Babylon, via classical Greece and Rome and the Middle East (both Christian and Islamic) through to the Latin and vernacular cultures of the Christian West in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.