Medieval Universities

2. Before the invention of printing, books had to be copied by _____.
5. Many of the university professors belonged to this order, among them were Saint Albert the Great and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
7. A type of medieval school organized for higher learning.
8. Books were very rare and ______.
11. Unlike the cathedral schools, universities received a _____ from the pope which gave the university independence from any bishop or lord.
12. Peasant farmers were mostly _______, meaning they could not read.
13. Sons and daughters of farmers would be taught the _____ required to do the tasks of farming.
14. Saint Thomas ________ was a professor of theology and wrote the Summa Theologiae.

1. Studied after the Trivium and consisting of arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy.
3. In the Middle Ages, all education was under the control of ________.
4. By the high Middle Ages, most important cities had thriving cathedral _______ where many of the most important rulers of the age were educated.
6. The three courses of the Trivium and the four of the Quadrivium together were called the seven _____ arts.
9. Studied by younger children and consisting of three subjects of grammar, logic and rhetoric.
10. The children of merchants or city craftsmen would be trained in the ______ of their fathers.