1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.