Les Samedis de Cabara

Saturday, February 21, 2026 at 5:30 p.m,

at the Café de la Marine in Cabara

with Mrs. Sabine Rommevaux-Tani,

Director of research at the CNRS, associate professor of mathematics, historian of science and medieval philosophy at the Ausonius laboratory of Bordeaux Montaigne University.

for a new meeting-conference :

The historian's tools for studying the teaching of geometry at the University of Paris in the Middle Ages

Was geometry taught at the University of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries? If so, were demonstrations part of this teaching?

We'll try to answer these two questions using different approaches.

We'll look at the organization of university teaching in Paris in the Middle Ages. We'll open library catalogs. We'll look at the texts themselves and the writings