Chapter 9 Section 4:

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Chapter 9 Section 4

• Learning, Literature and the Arts

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Medieval Universities

• Better educated clergy
• Cathedral schools ? first universities
• Academic guilds rights of members and standards
• Student Life
• Wake early and study
• Students memorize what they were taught
• Students take oral exams the more study, the
  higher the degree

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• Women and Universities
• Not allowed to attend university
• Limits types of jobs and skills acquired
• Christine de Pizan
• earned through writing ? very unusual

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New Learning

• Muslim manuscripts that were translated into
  Latin are coming to Europe
• Philosophy
• Christians believe on faith Church is final
  authority
• Scholasticism reason used to support Christian
  ideas
• Muslim Averroes and Jewish Maimonides
• Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica faith and
  reason live in harmony
• Very little scientific advances all knowledge
  must fit with Church teaching

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Medieval Literature

• Vernacular everyday language of common people
  (begins to be the way people write)
• Epics - long narrative poems
• Chansons de geste songs of heroic deeds
• Song of Roland knight dies killing Muslims
• El Cid
• Dantes Divine Comedy
• Hell, purgatory and heaven
• Shows belief that peoples actions determine fate
• Chaucers The Canterbury Tales
• - follows pilgrims to Thomas Beckets tomb many
  characters who tell a story each

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Architecture and Art

• Romanesque Style
• - About 1000
• Roman like structure
• Long barrel like roof
• Thick walls to support heavy roof
• No windows
• Dark and gloomy

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• Gothic Style
• About 1140
• Flying buttresses (stone supports outside church)
• High walls (carries eye towards heavens)
• Pointed arches
• Huge stained glass windows
• People began to
• build many
• gave inspiration

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• Art in Stone Glass
• Carved sculptures portrays scenes from Bible and
  everyday life
• Stained-glass windows
• Religious education for the illiterate
• Rose window (circle stained glass window in front
  fascade)

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• Illuminated manuscripts
• Gothic style applied to painting and illumination
  (artistic decoration of books)
• Contains designs and paintings of biblical scenes
  and daily life
• Bold and brilliant colors detail