Honors 4/12 You will take use your notes to discuss the Church’s role in education during the high middle ages and take notes on the importance of the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
Cathedral Schools Cathedrals are the new style of churches created in the high middle ages Prepares the sons of nobles to serve the Church Also trained students for government postions, lawyers, teachers Seven Subjects: grammer, rhetoric, logic, arithmatic, geometry, astronomy, and music Students memorized teacher’s explanantions
Universities Students: “Teachers hold too few classes and not enough subjects” Teachers: “ Too many untrained teachers” Students and teachers make unions Unions become universities headed by Chancellors Well organized and set standards
Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican priest and a philosopher Held a balance between theology and reason These did not conflict as they were both gifts from God Muslims preserved the works of Greek philosophers They were traded in major cities such as Constantinople Translated into Latin Aquinas wrote many book including Summa Theologica
Knights Chansons de geste were heroic poem about knights Song of Roland What are the valued qualities shown in the Song of Roland? Knights follow a code of chivalry.