medieval university
Scholastic learning institution
A medieval university was a higher learning institution established in Europe during the Middle Ages, typically from the 12th century onward.
These were the ancestors of modern universities—Bologna, Paris, Oxford—organized as guilds of students or masters, granting degrees in theology, law, medicine, and the arts.
Medieval universities developed the lecture and examination systems still used today.
- cloistersCovered monastery walkways
- facultyInherent power or ability
- scholasticismRigorous dialectical learning method
- liberal artsNon-vocational higher education
- disputationFormal argumentative exchange
viva voce · Latin language · town and gown · charters · theology · canon law · lecture halls · rhetoric · papal bulls · grammar · dialectics · rector · dormitories · philosophy · astronomy · abbeys · libraries · baccalaureate
- classical educationclassical education, Latin, grammar, logic, trivium
- education historypublic schooling, education reforms, school reform, educational reforms, one-room school
- liberal artshumanities, trivium, philosophy, history, classical education
- Italian Academia
medieval universityonline university
Remote degree-granting institution
community college · land-grant university · Plato's Academy · research university · polytechnic
medieval universityautodidacticism
Practice of self-instruction
self-directed learning · unschooling · oral tradition · craft guild · free school
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