Topic 6:  The Church in the Twelfth Century and the Rise of the Papacy

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Churchmen lead Europe into a Renaissance of Learning

Cathedral Schools: Paris, Laon, and Chartres    Monastic Schools


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Trivium: Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic

Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Music, Geometry,
Astronomy

Beginnings of the Universities: Bologna (Law) and Paris (Theology)

Scriptoria (Scriptorium)

  Bologna and the Birth of Modern Law 

A key element of the intellectual revival in Philosophy, Medicine, and Mathematics:  the influence of Arabic culture and learning on Western Europe

Gerard of Cremona and Archbishop Raymond of Toledo:Aristotle's Logical Treatises

Cordoba and Palermo

Paris: Peter Lombard, Sentences

International Education: Textbooks and Language

 

 
 Latin Literature: Poetry, the beginning of rhymed verse.

Vernacular Literature:  Arthurian Legends and Poetry

 
 
 
Gratian († 1140)

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 Gratian's Decretum

Doctor utriusque iuris

Pepo (ca. 1075)

Irnerius († 1125)

Justinian’s Corpus iuris civilis

St. Denis, royal abbey, the birthplace of Gothic Architecture The Spread of Universities in Europe 1100 to 1400

The Greatest Teacher of the Twelfth Century

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Peter Abelard, Historia calamitatum (History of My Misfortunes) William of Champeaux, Anselm of Laon
Abelard's Sic et Non Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Abelard and Heloise. Canon Fulbert of Paris; Heloise, Fulbert's niece Abelard died 1142 at the Abbey of Cluny

Sculpture from the tomb of Johannes of Legnano, a professor of law at Bologna (died 1383) showing law students listening to Johannes lecture in a classroom at the University of Bologna.

 

Twelfth Century Papacy

Pope Innocent III