Cathedral Schools

Who/What: schools of learning attached to Catholic cathedrals; generally in larger cities; these schools taught the 7 liberal arts (the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, musical theory, and astronomy) as well as medicine, theology, or law; trained scholars and provided towns with prestige and income

When: emerged in the 12th century

Where: Western Europe; most famous universities in Paris, Bologna, Montpellier, and Reims

Significance: were the forerunner to the modern university; provided places of scholarship and promoted new ways of thinking and new ideas