Unit 6 PP 1

Learning and Culture FlourishChapter 8 section 4

Causes (why do we need educated people now?) Economic? Political? Religious? Bologna (1158)

Oxford (1200)

The revival of learning

Early studies

School days were very regimented

Much learning was in Latin, and in the liberal arts and theology. Arabic numerals

Women’s roles?

Potential problems

The Bible is now considered the basis of all knowledge

Long “Lost” works now found again! Who? What are the potential problems?

Scholasticism: Scholarship Guided by Faith

1200’s new “Philosopher” Christians believed that reason could be used to explain Christian teachings Both came from god, should go hand in

handSt. Thomas Aquinas: Summa

Theologica Used Aristotle to explain Christian teaching

Literature and Language

The growth of the vernacular: Everyday speech in a particular regionDante Alghieri (1265-1321): The Divine

Comedy Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterburry Tales

(late 1300’s)The Song of Roland

While Nicholas and Alisoun lie together, the foppish and fastidious parish clerk, Absolon, who is also deeply attracted to Alisoun and believes her husband to be away, appears kneeling at the bedchamber's low "shot-wyndowe" (privy vent) and asks Alisoun for a kiss. In the darkness, she presents her "hole" (bottom) at the window and he "kissed her naked arse full savorly". He realises the prank and goes away enraged. He borrows a red hot “poker”. Returning, he asks for another kiss, intending to burn Alison. This time Nicholas, who had risen from bed to go to the privy, sticks his own backside out the window and breaks wind in Absolon's face. The furious suitor thrusts the coulter "amidde the ers" (between the cheeks) burning Nicholas' "toute" (anus) and the skin "a hands-breadth round about".

The Millers Tale

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