XXXIII. THE RECOVERY OF LEARNING
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Scholae publicae

Seven Liberal Arts:  grammar, rhetoric, dialectic (Trivium)

Geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, music (Quadrivium)

Boethius

Tropes

*Metaphor or Metonymy

“he is an accident waiting to happen”

The White House announced today …”

“Dana’s party on Saturday was Woodstock all over again.”

*Syncedoche

“Give us this day our daily bread”

“The U. S. won four gold medals”

Irony

The soldiers cried out, “Hail, king of the Jews”

“Take the plank out of your own eye before removing your brother’s splinter”

paralypsis (leaving aside)

“It would be unseemly of me to dwell on the senator’s drinking problem and too many have sensationalized his womanizing ….

45 categories of rhetoric

Dialectic:  an investigation via dialogue

Faith and reason:

Crede ut intelligas

Intellige ut credas

Computus

Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Besançon, Toulouse, Poitiers

Ostrogoths

Pope Agapetus and Cassidorus

Alcuin

Cathedral schools

Fulbert of Chartres

Gerbert at Rheims (Pope Sylvester II)

Laon, Orleans, Rheims, Nevers, Tournai, Paris

King Robert of France, King Canute of England, William of Aquitaine, Odilo of Cluny

Beregarius of Tour

St. Anselm

Peter Abelard

“philosophical realism” & Plato

Rose:  Albas, Damask, Damask Perpetuals, Centiflorias, Mosses

“form”

nomen:  nominalism

William of Champeaux

SIC ET NON

“By doubting we come to inquiry, by inquiry the Truth”

Intellige ut credas!

Peter Lombard

BOOK OF SENTENCES

Textbooks, lectures, scholars and cathedral schools … + taverns = universities