Cathedral Schools and Humanist Learning, 950–1150

Abstract

The curriculum of litterae et mores at cathedral schools of the late 10th and 11th centuries is essential in the formation of 12th century humanism. This curriculum, oriented to ethica and moralitas, accounts for the unity of secular learning in the period. When early Scholasticism displaced humanist learning at the schools, it passed into the realm of the courts and emerged as courtly education.