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MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES
NEED FOR EDUCATION Economic and political conditions improve. Educated persons needed for clergy and government positions. Universities sprang up around great cathedrals. Salerno, Bologna, Paris, Oxford
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY LIFE Prayers Classes all day Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, logic. Women did not attend universities. Educated in convents. Christine de Pizan
“NEW LEARNING” Greece Muslim scholarship Scholasticism Thomas Aquinas
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Vernacular Epics: chivalry Song of Roland Dante’s Divine Comedy Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
ARCHITECTURE AND ART
ROMANESQUE 1000 A.D. Barrel vaults. Thick walls. Darker, simplistic interiors. Rounded Arches. Small windows, usually at the top of the wall.
St. Filibert, France, 10c
Interior of a Romanesque Cathedral
Gothic Cathedral Architectural Style Began in France in the 12c. Pointed arches. Flying buttresses. Stained glass windows. Elaborate, ornate interior. Taller, more airy lots of light. Lavish sculpture larger-than-life.
The Gothic Cathedral
Interior of a Gothic Cathedral
Flying Buttress
Stained Glass Windows Religious themes and instructions. Religious education
ROSE WINDOW
Cathedral Gargoyles
PAINTINGS AND TAPESTRIES Bayeux Tapestry, 11c Paintings not lifelike; meant to inspire devotion. Paintings in thread; warmth and decoration.
THE CRUCIFIXION Giotto 1305
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS Artistic decoration of books. Monks, nuns, skilled artisans Books of Hours
GREGORIAN CHANT