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).
with the trivium -- grammar (
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.