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Write down what a typical school day is like
for you, from when you wake up, to when you
go back to sleep?
Learning, Literature, and the Arts
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Identify what changes in Europe were
bringing about a new time period
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Get into groups of three
Yesterday we discussed the Crusades
◦ Your group needs to discuss how the Crusades
could bring about change in Europe
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University
Student Life
New Learning
Architecture
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The clergy and rulers needed better
education
◦ Wealthy people gaining an education could lead to
higher jobs in the Church or government
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1100s, schools began to spring up
◦ Salerno and Bologna in Italy
◦ Paris and Oxford followed
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Students could usually study different
subjects at different universities
◦ Law in Bologna
◦ Medicine in Montpellier
◦ Theology in Paris
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5:00 AM: Prayer time then classes
10:00 AM: Classes stop for breakfast
5:00 PM: Classes end for supper
◦ Study until it was time for bed
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Classes were often in rented rooms or
churches
◦ Students were expected to memorize what they
were taught!
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Lessons included: arithmetic, geometry,
astronomy, music, grammar, logic
Oral exam to prove knowledge
Bachelor of arts: 3-6 years
◦ Masters degree took several more years
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Sketch a picture of how you feel a modern
day classroom looks
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Many of the ideas being taught had come
from Greece, but we lost after the fall of
Rome
◦ Muslims had acquired them and had taken the
ideas to Spain where Jews translated the lessons
from Arabic to Latin
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Revolutionized the world of learning
People should reason to discover basic truths
◦ At this time, most was accepted on faith
 How could they do both?
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Scholasticism- using reason to support
Christian beliefs
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Came up with Summa Theologica
◦ Determined faith and reason existed in harmony
◦ Brought together Christian faith and Greek
philosophy
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Scholars studied Hippocrates for medicine
◦ Euclid for geometry
◦ Many Arab scientists
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In math, Europeans adopted the HinduArabic numerals
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Scholars learned in Latin, but new writing
began to be vernacular
◦ In everyday language
◦ Tales of common people or epics of warriors
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Song of Roland
Poem of the Cid
Divine Comedy
The Canterbury Tales
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Around 1000 monasteries and towns built
stone churches that had Roman influences
Churches were so big and heavy that they
only had small windows for fear of
diminishing support
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1140 Abbot Suger wanted a new church near
Paris
◦ Builders developed Gothic architecture
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Key feature: stone supports outside the
church
◦ Effect: High walls with large stained glass windows
usually with Biblical scenes
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Sculptures were used for decoration