Learning in the Middle Ages
Last Updated      12/8/2007      11/12/2007      11/11/2007

Cathedral Schools
Schools were set up by the parish clergy.
Schools prepared the sons of nobles for service in the church.
Schools also trained government workers, lawyers, and teachers.
Seven subjects were taught.
Grammar, Retoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music.
Students paid a fee.
Teacher usually rented a hall.
Books were expensive.
Students memorized their work.

Universities
Students and teachers formed unions to create universities.
Universitities were teachers and srtudents devoted to learning.
Universitities spread all over Europe.
A church offical, chancellor, headed each university.
Universitities had well-organized classes at set times each day.
Students listened to lectures on a specific subject.
Students had to pass tests.
Lecturers had to be 21 years old and studied for 6 years.
Students came from all over Europe.
They first lived in boarding houses.
Rich sponsors built special buildings that they could live in.
Students were punished if massed was missed, they disturbed the peace, gambled, or sword practiced.



Thomas Aquinas
Born in 1225 at his father's castle.
At the age of five, he was sent to receive training from the Benedictine monks of Monte Cassino.
1236, Joined Dominican Order while studying theology and philosophy at Naples.
He was a noted scholar of the Middle Ages.
He believed faith and reason were gifts from God.
Reason helped people know what the world was really like.
Faith revealed religious truths to people.
He wrote a book called A Summary of Religious Thought.
His teachings were later accepted snd promoted by the Church.

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