Week 12

Question 1

Medieval learning: Charlemagne

Answer 1

• fears clergy would not be educated enough to read the bible
• reorganised education (Alcuin)

Question 2

Alcuin

Answer 2

• set the standard for the entire empire
• taught languages (Latin through Liber Glossarum)
• brought new script (not fully capitalised, more space between letters) –> more legible

Question 3

Medieval guilds

Answer 3

• provide vocative education
• older gen to younger gen
• rarely used books, lots of pics, not in latin

Question 4

Medicant schools

Answer 4

• provide education for the clergy

- 3rd and 4th century

Question 5

Monk education

Answer 5

• in monasteries
• 1 year of formal training (oral education)
• Rebanus Maurus: wrote books with images*

Question 6

Secular clergy education

Answer 6

• Cathedral schools, developed into universities (–> led to more books produced)
• 12th century: wandering scholars

Question 7

tutor payment cathedral schools

Answer 7

• students paid for tutors
• government paid for tutors
• church paid for tutors

Question 8

Liberal arts

Answer 8

Trivium: Grammar (talks), Logic (teaches words), Rhetoric (colors words)
Quadrivium: Arithmetic (numbers), Music (sings), Geometry (weighs), Astronomy (tends the stars)

Question 9

Ptolomy

Answer 9

• 2nd century astronomy
• all the planets can influence people’s bodies but not their minds
• moon is boundary between earth (temporary) and other spheres (eternal)
• moon = inconstant planet (gives inclination to people to wander)

Question 10

Simple necessity

Answer 10

laws of nature (seasons)

absence leaves room for free will

Question 11

Conditional necessity

Answer 11

if you see someone walking, he is necessarily walking, but it does not mean he is necessitated to walk