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The Seven Liberal Arts of the Trivium and Quadrivium
What are the 3 components of the Trivium? Grammar, Dialectic (also known as Logic), and Rhetoric. What are the 4 components of the Quadrivium? Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, Astronomy.
Education and Use of the Trivium During the Middle Ages
The following article was found in the 1908 public domain book, A History of the Middle Ages By Dana Carleton Munro. You can download this entire book for free by clicking on the link above!
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DURING the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary [...]
