schools and universities Flashcards
monastic schools
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
lay schools
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
ecclesiastical schools
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
higher education - cathedral schools
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
universities
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)
curricula
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
student life
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
careers
law - professionalisation, couldnt be judge without studying
theology - huge increase in trained preachers
medicine - physicians- becomes a male profession
impact of universities
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
Sources
Peter Abelard - attitudes to learning/ competition in Cathedral schools
letters from Heloise - support this but questionable authorship