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Chapter 9 Section 4:

Chapter 9 Section 4:. Learning, Literature and the Arts. Medieval Universities. Better educated clergy Cathedral schools  first universities Academic guilds – rights of members and standards Student Life Wake early and study Students memorize what they were taught

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Chapter 9 Section 4:

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  1. Chapter 9 Section 4: Learning, Literature and the Arts

  2. Medieval Universities • Better educated clergy • Cathedral schools  first universities • Academic guilds – rights of members and standards • Student Life • Wake early and study • Students memorize what they were taught • Students take oral exams; the more study, the higher the degree

  3. Women and Universities • Not allowed to attend university • Limits types of jobs and skills acquired • Christine de Pizan – • earned $ through writing  very unusual

  4. “New Learning” • Muslim manuscripts that were translated into Latin are coming to Europe • Philosophy – • Christians believe on faith; Church is final authority • Scholasticism – reason used to support Christian ideas • Muslim – Averroes and Jewish – Maimonides • Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica = faith and reason live in harmony • Very little scientific advances; all knowledge must fit with Church teaching

  5. Medieval Literature • Vernacular – everyday language of common people (begins to be the way people write) • Epics - long narrative poems • Chansons de geste – songs of heroic deeds • Song of Roland – knight dies killing Muslims • El Cid • Dante’s Divine Comedy – • Hell, purgatory and heaven • Shows belief that people’s actions determine fate Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales - follows pilgrims to Thomas Becket’s tomb; many characters who tell a story each

  6. Architecture and Art Romanesque Style - About 1000 • Roman like structure • Long barrel like roof • Thick walls to support heavy roof • No windows • Dark and gloomy

  7. Gothic Style • About 1140 • Flying buttresses (stone supports outside church) • High walls (carries eye towards heavens) • Pointed arches • Huge stained glass windows • People began to build many – gave inspiration

  8. Art in Stone & Glass • Carved sculptures portrays scenes from Bible and everyday life • Stained-glass windows • Religious education for the illiterate • Rose window (circle stained glass window in front fascade)

  9. Illuminated manuscripts • Gothic style applied to painting and illumination (artistic decoration of books) • Contains designs and paintings of biblical scenes and daily life • Bold and brilliant colors; detail

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