HIST110 Lecture Notes - Aristocracy, Scholasticism, Guelphs And Ghibellines
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Urban centers disappeared after fall of rome. Centers like paris, london became small places: no security of food supply, no specialization of labor because of no food supply, counts moved in tents. Italian city states, particularly venice, could trade across mediterreran sea: venice was mediator between east/west in order to survive. Not run by a lord, run by individuals through cooperation"s. 3 groups of people who lived in towns: magistrates, artisans: manufacturers, workers: unskilled, low ranking in society. Cities were places where church authority was limited. Church elders couldn"t exercise power as before. Towns evolved in cities became alternative life to medieval. Italian city states divided into 2: ghibelline: supporters of emperors, guelph: supports of papacy. Trivium: first level of education, logic, grammar, rhetoric. Quadrivium: next level up if passed previous, music, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy. Institutions limited to 7 15 age. Graduate could make education decision of any topic.