Studentă: Mărincean Iulia

Specializarea: Română-Engleză
Anul: III

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 Education during the medieval times
was not considered a necessity. It is
estimated that by 1330, only 5% of the
total population of Europe received any
sort of education.
Schools were mostly only accessible to
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the sons of high lords of the land.
 THE MODERN EDUCATION vs
THE MEDIEVAL ONE

 Modern education provide people a system

which have a lot of variants including
different levels of the learning process.
 Now we have public and private schools,
colleges and universities which are open to
general public.
 The modern education differs a lot from
what it was the medieval one.
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 Representative
images of the
Middle Ages’s
education

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  In medieval England, only people from higher
social classes had access to education. Women were
not allowed to study. They had other important
things to do, such as taking care of the household.

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  According to
Simon Newman
there were many
social classes:

1. ROYALTY included Kings, Queens, Princes, and

Princesses. Royals had complete power over the
land and political and economic decisions during
the Middle Ages.
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 A medieval king’s main
goal was to protect his
kingdom from enemies and
secure his domination of the
Kingdom.
 Medieval queens were not
absolute rulers of their
kingdoms as that role was
dominated by medieval kings
in medieval history.

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  A medieval prince had to
learn the customs and duties
that would be his when he was
crowned king if he was the
eldest son of the king.
 Charity work was very
important to a medieval
princess and she would also
be interested in politics and
current affairs.

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 2. NOBILTY had the most
power of the social classes after
the Royalty in the Middle
Ages. Nobility included:

a) hereditary nobility is
composed of dukes and barons

b) non-hereditary nobility
includes: knights, peasants,
freemen, serfs, slaves, clergy,
popes, priests and monks.

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 After William I’s
conquest of
England at
the Battle of
Hastings in 1066,
he dominated a
relatively
uneducated
country.

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 KEY WORDS
 The needing of a population that was
more well educated - particularly for
the developing merchant trade sector.
 The grammar schools
 The Latin grammar was an essential
element of the daily curriculum as
Latin was the language spoken by
merchants when they were trading in
Europe.

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  Books in medieval England were very costly and
schools were not able to provide the students with
them.
 Lessons would usually begin from sunrise and
ended by sunset - so this would vary depending on
the seasons.
 Lessons were also very disciplined and mistakes
faced punishment with a birch or at least being
threatened by it.

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  Not many girls attended a normal school, and girls who
came from rich families were either home schooled or in
another nobleman’s home. Several girls from wealthy
families were even educated abroad.

 The son of a peasant was only able to have an education if

he had the permission of the lord of the manor. If a family
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did not receive permission, they were badly fined.
  Children who did very
well at a grammar school
would then attend
university.
 The University of
Cambridge was founded
during the medieval time
and one of the main
centre of learning in
England.
 Founded in the 12th
century, this university
took boys as soon as they
were considered to be
ready for advanced
studies.

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 Cambridge University

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  Cambridge University was founded by students
fleeing from Oxford after one of the many episodes of
violence between the university and the town of
Oxford.
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 The Medieval University

 The teaching was conducted by masters who had themselves

passed through the course and who had been approved or
licensed by the whole body of their colleagues.
 The teaching took the form of reading and explaining texts
 The examinations were oral disputations in which the
candidates advanced a series of questions or theses which
they disputed or argued with opponents a little senior to
themselves, and finally with the masters who had taught
them.

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 It was not easy to live and study in the Middle
Ages, especially for people from lower social
classes who were not able to learn because of
their social status. That time was also difficult
for women, whereas some sons of peasants were
allowed to study, girls did not have that
opportunity.

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 Bibliography
 http://www.medievalchronicles.com/medieval-
people/medieval-royalty/
 http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/social-classes-in-
the-middle-ages.html
 https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval-
england/medieval-education/
 https://www.lostkingdom.net/medieval-education-in-europe/
 http://www.thefinertimes.com/Middle-Ages/education-in-the-
middle-ages.html
 https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/history/the-
medieval-university

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