schools and universities

Question 1

monastic schools

Answer 1

dominate early period
very elite
oblation - parents give child to order to study
records show opportunity to leave
also show not just comtemplative texts- did other things too

Question 2

lay schools

Answer 2

huge growth in period 
private, have to pay - still elite 
lay schoolmasters 
different ambitions 
new need for literacy in profit economy 
trained to become commercially competent

Question 3

ecclesiastical schools

Answer 3

ran by secular clergy rather than monastic houses
lateran 3- declares money to go towards teaching of poor - need for education
lateran 4 expands this to any church with means to do so

Question 4

higher education - cathedral schools

Answer 4

famous ones around paris 
teachers like peter abelard
itinerant masters - created competition 
very personal to individual teacher 
pop-up university 
others like orleans more permanent

Question 5

universities

Answer 5

often grow out of cathedral schools
bologna, paris, oxford etc
corporation of masters who agree on rules and expectations
founded under episcopal, royal or papal authority
patronage important
universities of masters (paris) or students (bologna)

Question 6

curricula

Answer 6

quadrivium - geometry, music, arithmetic, astronomy
trivium - dialectic, grammar, rhetoric
development of lay, theology and medicine at certain institutions
introduction of thought of aristotle
move towards more hands-on medical practice

Question 7

student life

Answer 7

lectiones - readings and expansions on texts
disputatio - explanations and disputations, could get political
textbooks like Priscian and Donatus
ability to read and copy books
lived in rented accomodation, grouped by nationality
bginning of funded colleges
bursaries given for social services

Question 8

careers

Answer 8

law - professionalisation, couldnt be judge without studying
theology - huge increase in trained preachers
medicine - physicians- becomes a male profession

Question 9

impact of universities

Answer 9

male social mobility
numbers not substantial- mobility restricted
new forms of learning - hands on
involvement of religious orders eg benedictine colleges
sent by order to study then return
royal and princely courts - use of trained men to understand law
huge effect on nature of government

Question 10

Sources

Answer 10

Peter Abelard - attitudes to learning/ competition in Cathedral schools
letters from Heloise - support this but questionable authorship