Cathedral Schools
Middle Ages

Schools established in association with the cathedrals of Europe for the education of boys.

Choir stall from a college church
in Eimbeck, Germany

Some students in these schools were prepared for secular callings and others were readied for further training as clergy. The curricula of these schools followed the classical trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrivium (astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, and music). Other subjects were sometimes added. The medieval universities grew in part from the cathedral schools.



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