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Medieval

Medieval. Learning, Literature, and the Arts. 1100s - first universities evolved out of cathedral schools. Literature began to be written in the vernacular (everyday language of the people) rather than in Latin only.

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Medieval

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  1. Medieval Learning, Literature, and the Arts

  2. 1100s - first universities evolved out of cathedral schools

  3. Literature began to be written in the vernacular (everyday language of the people) rather than in Latin only. • Scholasticism was developed by Christian scholars to resolve the conflict between faith and reason. • Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica - brought classical Greek philosophy together with Christian faith

  4. Chanson de geste - long narrative poems that portrayed the ideals of chivalry - such as the Song of Roland and the Poem of the Cid • Christine de Pizan: The City of Ladies - examined the achievements of women and men’s negative views of women • Dante : Divine Comedy - Roman poet Virgil leads Dante on a visit to hell, purgatory, and later heaven • Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales - pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Thomas Becket in Canterbury in southern England

  5. Troubadour poems of love were popular among the nobility. • The theme of all medieval art was religion.

  6. Illuminated Manuscripts

  7. Romanesque Cathedrals: 1000 - 1150 • thick walls, rounded arches and domed roofs • narrow slits for windows • simple, solid, dark, gloomy fortress • flat, masculine, and simply adorned

  8. Gothic Cathedrals: 1150 - 1300 • tall, light, and airy • flying buttresses • large stained glass windows • complex, lacy, richly embroidered, feminine

  9. Despite the lack of scientific observation and experimentation and the unquestioned authority of the Catholic Church, some scientific progress was made. • 1200s - Roger Bacon : founder of experimental science • Medicine was still poor - illness was the work of the devil • herbal folk medicine, prayer, and pilgrimages to holy shrines

  10. Art is flat and lacks proportion and perspective.

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