01:510:209 Chapter Notes -Avicenna, Roscellinus, Roman Law
8 Feb 2014
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Lots of intellectual development: more universities, law and medicine became serious intellectual disciplines, steady advances were made in science. Literature saw the flourishing of warlike epic poetry, the rebirth of lyric poetry, the emergence of romance, and the elaboration of richly imaginative fabliaux and fables. Byzantine and islamic influences: byzantine culture continued to flourish, preserved ancient traditions, byzantine art was opulent. Libraries and schools in constantinople: byzantine learning spread through medieval europe. Intellectual trends: universities were only for men. Medicine: university of salerno in the southern italian peninsula was the chief medical school of medieval europe. Simple superstition, good common sense, wise observation: rudimentary methods, dissections. Philosophy: medieval universities made no distinction between the study of philosophy and theology. The philosophers had 6 main resources: classical greece- plato and aristotle, islamic thought, jewish thought, early christian theologians, early medieval scholars, scripture. Scholasticism: the dominant intellectual approach to the problems of the day.
