Organiser Associate Professor John Pryor

Investigated was medieval intellectual enquiry in general, with a specific focus on medieval universities. The highlight was a reconstructed medieval university lecture. Attention was paid to the foundations of medieval higher education - the Seven Liberal Arts divided into the Trivium (Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, and Music) - and to Theology, Philosophy, Law, and Medicine. Other lectures discussed the organizational structures of medieval universities.

Programme

Associate Professor John Clifton-Everest (Department of German)
The University of Prague in the Middle Ages
Professor Margaret Clunies Ross (Centre for Medieval Studies)
Intellectual life in medieval Iceland
Dr Carole Cusack (School of Studies in Religion)
The Colleges of medieval universities
Associate Professor John Pryor (Centre for Medieval Studies)
Grammar, Rhetoric, Law, and Theology: the origins of the Universities of Bologna and Paris
Dr John O. Ward (Department of History)
A medieval university Lecture reconstructed