Who/What: the major fields of study in medieval cathedral schools; comprised of the Trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic/dialectic as the “beginning arts,” and the Quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, music (theory, not practice), and astronomy; logic excited the most intense interest; students and masters believed logic clarified every issue and could prove what one believed on faith was in fact true (p. 371)
When: 12th century
Where: cathedral schools
Significance: this curriculum helped influence modern education and sparked great inquests into knowledge and beliefs
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