The Medieval Period, Scholasticism, and the Renaissance
Presented by:
Susan Kaye Jennings
Tom Davis

Map of the Medieval Universities

Medieval Timeline
476
800 1066 1158
Univ. of Paris receives royal charter
1200
1347
Vittorino da
Feltre born
Erasmus born
1378
1466
Western
Empire falls to
Germanic barbarians
Charlemagne
Crowned
HRE
Norman
Conquest
Univ. of
Bologna chartered
Black
Death appears in Italy
1600
1533
Montaigne born

The Plagues – The Black Death

Medieval Ages
• Theocentrical Worldview
• Hierarchical conception of society
• The Church as the dominating power
• Three Christian Beliefs
• Educational Agencies
• Church related-institutions

• Clergy trained in Latin, liturgy, and doctrine
• Feudal Nobility trained in arms, heraldry, manners
• Commoners trained in craft guilds

Medieval Lecture Hall

Saint Thomas Aquinas and Charlemagne

Scholasticism
• Medieval University
• Trends of the Medieval University
• Nominalism versus Realism
• Scholasticism as an educational method
• Peter Abelard
• Thomas Aquinas

University Professors

• Grammar
• Logic
• Rhetoric
• Arithmetic
• Geometry
• Astronomy
• Music

The Renaissance
• Humanist Education
• Return to classical aspects of society
• Decline of the Roman Catholic Church
• Humanist Educators – Vittorino de Feltre
• Christian Humanism – Erasmus
• Women’s education

END OF DISCUSSION GUIDE

Answers to quiz
• 1. Thomas Aquinas 2. Erasmus
• 3. Personality as a lecturer, Carefully organized lectures, Relevance of the lecture to his students
• 4. Grammar, rhetoric, logic
• 5. Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
• 6. The Latin language
• 8. Vittorino da Feltre
7. False
• 9. False
• 10. Universities of the southern style were controlled by the students while the universities of the northern style were controlled by the faculty.

References
• Gutek, G.L. (1995) A History of the
Western Educational Experience.
Waveland Press: IL.
• Timeline of the Middle Ages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Chro nological_Timeline
• Medieval University
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Univ ersity

References Continued…
• The Rise of Scholasticism – Saint Anselm
• http://www2.nd.edu/Departemnts/Maritain/ etext/staamp1.htm
• Charlemagne
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
• Holy Roman Emperor
• http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holy_Roman
_Emperors