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MEDIEVAL CULTURE
MRS. SIBBETT

2. MEDIEVAL UNIVERSITIES

3. 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

4. OXFORD

5. UNIVERSITY LIFE Prayers Classes all day
Arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric, logic.
Women did not attend universities.
Educated in convents.
Christine de Pizan

6. “NEW LEARNING”
Greece
Muslim scholarship
Scholasticism
Thomas Aquinas

7. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Vernacular Epics: chivalry Song of Roland
Dante’s Divine Comedy
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

8. ARCHITECTURE AND ART

9. ROMANESQUE 1000 A.D. Barrel vaults. Thick walls.
Darker, simplistic interiors.
Rounded Arches.
Small windows, usually at the top of the wall.

10. St. Filibert, France, 10c

11. Interior of a Romanesque Cathedral

12. 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.

13. The Gothic Cathedral

14. Interior of a Gothic Cathedral

15. Flying Buttress

16. Stained Glass Windows Religious themes and instructions.
Religious education

17. ROSE WINDOW

18. Cathedral Gargoyles

19. PAINTINGS AND TAPESTRIES
Bayeux Tapestry, 11c
Paintings not lifelike; meant to inspire devotion.
Paintings in thread; warmth and decoration.

20. THE CRUCIFIXION
Giotto
1305

21. ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
Artistic decoration of books.
Monks, nuns, skilled artisans
Books of Hours

22. GREGORIAN CHANT