Septem Artes Liberales (The Seven Liberal Arts) in Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).

Artes Liberales was medieval and earlier nomenclature for the Trivium and Quadrivium (artes triviales and artes quadriviales), the education and training deemed suitable for free persons (Latin liber: free), as distinct from the artes illiberales for the less (or not) free, now broadly termed Vocational education. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1401x1839, 672 KB) Septem artes liberales from Hortus deliciarium of Herrad von Landsberg (about 1180) File links The following pages link to this file: Liberal arts Medieval philosophy Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1401x1839, 672 KB) Septem artes liberales from Hortus deliciarium of Herrad von Landsberg (about 1180) File links The following pages link to this file: Liberal arts Medieval philosophy Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Philosophy ... Herrad of Landsberg (c. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... A blacksmith is a traditional trade. ...

• The Trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (language, oratory, logic), the artes sermocinales.
• The Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, the artes reales or physicae.

The trivium is a theory of education. ... Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. ... Rhetoric (from Greek ρήτωρ, rhêtôr, orator, teacher) is the art or technique of persuasion, usually through the use of language. ... In classical philosophy, dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is an exchange of propositions (theses) and counter-propositions (antitheses) resulting in a synthesis of the opposing assertions, or at least a qualitative transformation in the direction of the dialogue. ... The quadrivium comprised the four subjects taught in medieval universities after the trivium. ... Arithmetic or arithmetics (from the Greek word αριθμός = number) is the oldest and simplest branch of mathematics, used by almost everyone, for tasks ranging from simple daily counting to advanced science and business calculations. ... Table of Geometry, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... A giant Hubble mosaic of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant. ... Music is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ...

See also

• Liberal arts

In the history of education, the seven liberal arts comprise two groups of studies, the trivium and the quadrivium. ...

References

• The Seven Liberal Arts, Catholic Encyclopedia