Discuss four types of church related institutions that arose during the medieval times.

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1. Parish schools_ the council of Rome in 833AD directed that each parish must have a parish school to offer elementary education. Education in this schools dealt mainly with religious rituals and music needed for celebrating mass. But
they also offered reading and writing.

2. Chantry schools_ these were supported by wealth people who gave donations as mass intentions for their souls. This money was mainly to train the choir to be able to chant responses during their funeral mass. This involved learning Latin.

3. Monastic schools_ started in the 4th century. Were to offer education to the monks and the priests. They also offered education to the boys in villages around the monasteries included church doctrine reading and writing Latin, arithmetic music used in religious liturgy. St. Benedict in the 6th century revitalized the monastic life to include classical culture or classical education.
He prescribed that every day the monks had to spend 2 hours reading classical literature. By 10th the monasteries were offering education in higher levels in liberal arts and medicine and law. Liberal arts can be divided into two;
Tritium – for gramman rhetoric and logic
Quadrivium for arithmetic, geometry, music, religious, astronomy
By the 11th century due to general poetical stability and economic prosperity, there was rise of cities. Since monasteries were in the rural areas, education in them declined giving rise to cathedral schools. Although they continued to hold libraries
and contain schools, most cathedral schools shifted to big cities e.g. Paris, Lyon.

4. Cathedral schools_ these started by offering elementary and secondary education, emphasizing general or liberal studies. Some of them offered reading and writing Latin as preparation for liberal studies. They got success when there was the church lean council (1179 AD). It ruled that there should be a school in every cathedral to educate clergy and poor.
These cathedrals started emphasizing secondary education and higher education based on what they had inherited from graeco roman education. As centers of liberal education they came to be referred to as studio generally from the term stadium general or centre for general studies. Most of these cathedral schools led to being the early medieval universities. In the unit a travelling teacher would find a group of students and form a stadium. These schools came to be known synonymously a university. By the 12th century a revitalized higher education appeared.

marto answered the question on May 20, 2019 at 05:32

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