HIST 1201H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Textual Criticism, Church Fathers, Movable Type
8 Mar 2016
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Education from the collapse of rome to humanism. Collapse of the roman empire in the 5th century. Latin the language of state, diplomacy and religion (stand language) Invites monks to establish schools in his territories. Reconfiguration of the roman empire, although was never successful. Property deeds, wills, legal deeds of courts, simple everyday accounting. Increase in business, increasing need for higher educations (at least literacy) Private tutors for the wealthy (usually for males, sometimes females) Teachers hired by towns (especially in italy) Small private day schools (if you know how to read you can become a teacher) Learn to read and then learn how to write. Monastic schools (run by monks) replaced by cathedral schools (run by bishops, supported by papacy) arithmetic, geometry and music. Cathedral schools seven liberal arts: grammar, astronomy, rhetoric, logic, Grammar was the study of latin language and literature. Training of clergy; eventually training of notaries and merchants.
