Learning, Literature, and the Arts

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Learning, Literature, and the Arts

• Chapter 9, Section 4

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Education

• As life improved in the High Middle Ages, so did
  education.
• Church educated clergy
• Nobles literate men
• Townspeople education meant jobs in church or
  government

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Universities

• Schools to train clergy evolve to the first
  universities
• Oxford
• Cambridge
• Bologna
• Study theology, medicine, law, religion

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Students studies liberal arts

• Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar,
  rhetoric, logic
• Took oral exams
• Bachelor of Arts 3 to 6 years

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Women Education

• Not allowed to attend university
• Could not become professionals
• Some women questioned whether or not women had
  the potential to learn.
• Women should pursue their natural gifts
  raising children, cooking, taking care of the
  home, sewing and doing needlework

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Christine de Pizan

• If it were customary to send daughters to school
  like sons, and if they were taught the same
  subjects, they would learn as thoroughly and
  understand the subtleties of all arts and science
  as well as sons.

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Europeans acquire new learning

• After the fall of Rome, much learning fell away.
• Works translated into Latin
• Return to the ancient Greeks
• Arabic influce
• Science and math
• Church teachings hindered science in the Middle
  Ages

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Medieval Literature

• Vernacular
• Epics
• Dantes Divine Comedy
• Chaucers Canterbury Tales

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Romanesque Gothic Architecture
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Romanesque Gothic Architecture

• Stone churches
• Roman influenced
• Dark and gloomy
• Flying buttress (stone supports)
• TALL cathedrals taller the better!

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Medieval Art and its importance -

• Medieval men and women couldnt read
• Learned through pictures
• Learned about God through carvings and
  stained-glass windows in church
• Tapestries and paintings showed life in the manor
  home or in a castle
• Religious art also inspired people to worship

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Stained Glass
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