Exercises on Education in the Middle Ages

(Fuvest) The proliferation of medieval universities in the 13th century, responsible for important cultural transformations, is related:

a) to the cultural Renaissance promoted by Charlemagne and the educated men he brought to his court.

b) the invention of the printing press that made it possible to reproduce books to be consulted by teachers and students.

c) the importance of spreading the teaching of Latin, the language used by the Church to write theological treatises, letters and books.

d) the growth of commerce, the development of cities and the aspirations of the bourgeoisie for knowledge.

e) the determination to eliminate the ignorance and illiteracy of the so-called Dark Ages.

(Unesp) European cultural life in the Late Middle Ages (from the 11th to the 15th centuries) can be characterized by:

a) Ptolemy's effort to structure geographical concepts.

b) multiplication of Universities and diffusion of Gothic architecture.

c) displacement, from Cordoba to Paris, of the center of gravity of Muslim culture.

d) diffusion of scholastic dogma based on the denial of the union between faith and reason in the search for truth.

e) decay of urban education followed by its ruralization.

The so-called seven liberal arts , which were at the basis of teaching in the Western Middle Ages, comprised two groups. They were:

a) System of Comenius and Rousseau.

b) Quran and System of Hugh of Saint Victor.

c) The Trivium and the Magna Didactic.

d) The Trivium and the Quadrivium

e) The Trivium and a doctorate in magical arts.

The medieval University emerged from an ecclesiastical initiative, but it did not restrict its activity only to members of the Church, being also open to lay people. What can be considered the founding document of medieval universities is:

a) The leaflet Divinis Redemptoris

b) The Donation of Constantine

c) The encyclical Fides et Ratio

d) The encyclical Rerum Novarum

e) The leaflet Parens Scientiarum

Letter D

From the 11th and 12th centuries, Western Europe began to experience strong urban and commercial growth, known as the Urban and Commercial Renaissance, which resulted, among other things, from the resumption of commercial connections from the Sea Mediterranean. The ferment of urban life led to the emergence of university teaching institutions, which were at the heart of the cultural life of that period.

Letter B

The cultural life of the Middle Ages, especially the period of the Late Middle Ages, is undoubtedly related to the urban life of the same period. Gothic universities and cathedrals are an expression of the cultural wealth and urban development of that time.

Letter D

The seven liberal arts of the Western Middle Ages were divided into two groups of complexity:the Trivium, which comprised Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic, and the Quadrivium, which comprised Arithmetic, Music, Geometry and Astrology. This system lasted until the Renaissance period, having been overcome by the model proposed by Comenius in his Didactics Magna.

Letter E

The Bull Parens scientiarum , decreed by Pope Gregory IX, is considered the founding document of the Medieval University. According to historian Reginé Pernoud, in her work “Light in the Middle Ages”, this papal letter explicitly recognized both teachers and students the right to associate in a space to teach their knowledge to one another.