The Middle Ages - 1 views
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Universities developed out of monastery and cathedral schools -- really what we would call elementary schools, but attended by adolescents and taught by monks and priests. The first was in Bologna, established in 1088 (see map below).
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with the trivium -- grammar (
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All together, these subjects make up the seven liberal arts. Liberal referred to the free man, the man of some property, and liberal arts were in contrast to the practical arts of the working poor.