HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Quran
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900-1300 ce: previous chapters focused on how the major religious systems of the world served as the centers of civilization for the times, also, accompanying the dramatic increase in commerce in europe, asia, and. Africa came a comparable increase in learning: as learning spread, so too did explanations of who should learn and what should be studied. Latin christendom: education and learning largely the purview of clergy and religious, creates elite culture, learning based upon pragmatic. Clerics, clerks needed to read, write, and count effectively, peasants did not. Monastic learning: monks learned together, they preserved and spread knowledge to society. Begin in italy in bologna and padua. Specialized: montpellier and salerno in medicine; bologna in law; paris and oxford in theology. Yet, many others flourished as map reveals (more than 80): characteristics of universities received students from everywhere (not merely the local district or region);
