The Medieval Period, Scholasticism, and the Renaissance

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The Medieval Period, Scholasticism, and the
Renaissance

• Presented by
• Susan Kaye Jennings
• Tom Davis

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Map of the Medieval Universities
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Medieval Timeline
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The Plagues The Black Death
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Medieval Ages

• Theocentrical Worldview
• Hierarchical conception of society
• The Church as the dominating power
• Three Christian Beliefs
• Educational Agencies
• Church related-institutions

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Medieval Society

• Clergy
• trained in Latin, liturgy, and doctrine
• Feudal Nobility
• trained in arms, heraldry, manners
• Commoners
• trained in craft guilds

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Medieval Lecture Hall
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Saint Thomas Aquinas and Charlemagne
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Scholasticism

• Medieval University
• Trends of the Medieval University
• Nominalism versus Realism
• Scholasticism as an educational method
• Peter Abelard
• Thomas Aquinas

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University Professors
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The Seven Liberal Arts

• Grammar
• Logic
• Rhetoric
• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Astronomy
• Music

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The Renaissance

• Humanist Education
• Return to classical aspects of society
• Decline of the Roman Catholic Church
• Humanist Educators Vittorino de Feltre
• Christian Humanism Erasmus
• Womens education

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Answers to quiz

• 1. Thomas Aquinas 2. Erasmus
• 3. Personality as a lecturer, Carefully
  organized lectures, Relevance of the lecture to
  his students
• 4. Grammar, rhetoric, logic
• 5. Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
• 6. The Latin language 7. False
• 8. Vittorino da Feltre
• 9. False
• 10. Universities of the southern style were
  controlled by the students while the universities
  of the northern style were controlled by the
  faculty.

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References

• Gutek, G.L. (1995) A History of the Western
  Educational Experience. Waveland Press IL.
• Timeline of the Middle Ages http//en.wikipedia.o
  rg/wiki/Medieval_Chronological_Timeline
• Medieval University
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_University

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References Continued

• The Rise of Scholasticism Saint Anselm
• http//www2.nd.edu/Departemnts/Maritain/etext/staa
  mp1.htm
• Charlemagne
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
• Holy Roman Emperor
• http// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holy_Roman_E
  mperors