Education And Learning Flashcards
Women were excluded from…
Universities, grammar schools, and cathedral and collegiate church schools
Ironically, women were used to represent university subjects in art because…
The Latin words for the subjects were feminine
Men controlled access to…
Higher learning
Education was the prestige of…
A small elite. It was determined by class and gender.
Wives may have learned to read but…
Remained illiterate
Queen Margaret of Scotland could read but…
Her husband, King Malcolm III, was completely illiterate as documented by Turgot of Durham in a posthumous biography
Mothers with sufficient wealth and education encouraged…
Their daughters’ intellectual development
Reading was connected to a highborn girl’s…
Moral edification and spiritual development
Daughters were taught to read first by…
The ABC, and then prayers such as Pater Noster, Ave Maria, and The Apostles Creed
Young girls were often taught to read using…
Psalters
Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435) commissioned books for…
All of her daughters, including psalters
Not many girls learned to write because…
It was a specialised skill generally left for scribes
Women who wanted to write letters may have…
Used personal/hired scribes or intermediaries
Fathers and other male mentors could…
Play a role in instructing their daughters and other female relations
Charlemagne was…
Well up for teaching daughters n said it wos good
