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Medieval university
Medieval university: the corporation of masters and students (universitas) that emerged at Bologna, Paris, and Oxford in the 11th-12th centuries, teaching arts, law, medicine, and theology in Latin, conferring degrees, and spreading to over 60 European institutions by 1500.
Scholasticism
Scholasticism: the dominant method of teaching and inquiry in Western European schools and universities, c. 1100-1600, using disputation, quaestio, and dialectic to reconcile Christian faith and reason, centered on Abelard, Lombard, and Aquinas.
Trivium
The trivium is the three verbal arts of the seven liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, and logic (dialectic). Paired with the quadrivium, it structured medieval education; the term dates to the ninth century.