Codex Calixtius
The monastery, according to the cultural currents of the time, would not go behind the cultural centres that were the escuelasde cathedrals, as evidenced by the two Garampi emerged from his scriptorium with beautiful and elegant calligraphy and personalities that came out (), which does not exclude that they could then be sent to top culture centers to complete their training (Tortosa, Lleida and Toulouse de Languedoc). The best proof that Arnau and his brothers took well the lessons received his ecclesiastical teachers, is the first news that comprise written are his posts between the canons of the Diocese of Urgell, the brother called William, as the own Arnau year 1135. So, when he began studying at the Augustinian monastery of Santa Maria de Solsona, already live there in community quite a few more than fifty monks resident at the year Arnau was born. Not only studied ecclesiastical and New Testament themes, but that would him abreast of the great innovations of that century, as they were, for example, that he began to use the italic letter in writing franca because the Visigothic fell into disuse. It was also in that century was published the Codex Calixtius, which was the first traveler’s Guide (1130) for the pilgrims who were doing the Camino de Santiago. Much of the progress made was due to that in the 12th century sovereigns could not intervene in disputes between peasants and nobles. Hence the need for the feudal Pact that was years before had been extended by the Church with the name of peace and truce. Of course his father Ecard-Miro was interested in that all her children would have adequate preparation for war. They were a family so warriors as mystics, whose men took part in the famous conquest of Almeria, Tortosa and Lleida between others, in a period in which there where is the Cathedral of Barcelona still had a Jewish synagogue, and continued even after two centuries more!.
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