Chain of Being
God's Creation ------------------ 1. Angels 2. Humans 3. Animals 4. Plants 5. Matter * Pico takes humans out, allows them to choose good or bad*
Trivium
Grammar Logic Rhetoric
Quadrivium
Arithmetic (#) Geometry (# in space) Music (# in time Astronomy(# in space and time)
Vergerius's Ideal Liberal Arts Education
1. History 2. Moral Philosophy (Ethics) 3. Eloquence 4. Literature (Poetry) 5. Physics
John Ball's Couplet
"When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?"
Post - Liberal Arts Education/Specialties
1. Law 2. Medicine *3. Theology
Humanism
Celebration of humanity as the greatest of all God's creation
Liberal Arts
Studies that are worthy of free men
1347
Plague hits Europe
1358
The Jacquerie
1381
The English Peasant Rebellion of 1381
1337 - 1452
The Hundred Year's War
1453
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake