The third in a series exploring the educational ideal that shaped learning across Europe for centuries. Part 1 of this series traced the roots of the Seven Liberal Arts back to Ancient Greece and explored their central role in medieval Christian education. In part 2, we learned how the first three arts – Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectic, known collectively as […]
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The Seven Liberal Arts part 2: three roads to knowledge
The second in a series exploring the educational ideal that shaped learning across Europe for centuries. In the previous post I traced the evolution of the Seven Liberal Arts from their roots in ancient Greece to their maturity in the medieval Christian era. This time I will take a closer look at the first three Arts, Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectic, […]