Huh! Tons of schooling options then. The idea of a new form of secular education and widespread literacy as a foundation for the renaissance has blown my mind a bit. Thanks!
Yes the schooling system and education of medieval children had massive impacts on how the middle class was able to rise in society, the rise of the more secular professional classes into the ranks of government and the growth of education coupled with the wealth falling into an educated merchant elite who funded arts and universities all were contributors. This is why education is super important
I wonder if this applies to other parts of the world like the middle east, asia and africa as well during middle ages. Did they for example have "foreign exchange" programs? I'd love to know anyone's thoughts :P I thoroughly enjoyed this video .
These are some good questions and something I am not really qualified to answer. I do know that China and Korea had schooling, though to what level I'm not sure and there was schools in the Islamic empire. But beyond that I am unsure.
Wow that last point was quite the mic drop. Church power wanes as urbanization creates more secular power, shifting tides towards the Renaissance. I'd like to hear you expand more on how that tension develops between the Church educated professionals and those secular. P.S. you were using the word ecumenical, but I suppose you meant ecclesiastical. Cheers.
😏 always leave the best for last. I do have plans to talk about the educated professional classes in the future I suppose I was meaning ecclesiastical, nice spotting.
Would you have an idea of the actual proportion of people in the total population that received education, in the cathedral schools or municipal ones? Because it's not clear what an "increase" in something actually means, and how evenly did education permeate in society vs just the wealthy class.
Off the top of my head I'd not be able to say what any statistics would be I'm afraid without rereading the sourced materials being that it was such a long time since writing this video. If I remember the use of the term "increase" was a writing attempt to move past a information dump in which I'd had multiple examples of secular school attendances increasing. Not the best way to share information I know. As for how evenly was education spread, while the wealthy did educate their children education was not relegated to an elite few, the middle class was active in setting up secular schools and creating charitable schools for poor children and girls. Likewise the rural workers received schooling from traveling scholars and priests who were paid to teach village children basic literacy and numeracy.
what about things like sex education? with most medieval families sharing a single large bed, was that just something they learned by observation? i'm sure, given the areas' individual stances on sex that the church may or may not inform people on this subject, but they all learned it from somewhere, yea? we're all here, after all
This is not my field of knowledge, as far as I know much of what was taught about sex came from the church. Rosalie of Rosalie Medieval Women would be much better to answer these questions if you are interested to know more.
I love the idea of Medieval people using the study of the natural world, the human mind, and even mathematics to understand the nature of God. If there is one, it would make sense for one to seek an understanding of Him through the world He made and the minds He gave us. Curiously, that seems to have been C.S. Lewis' tactic in introducing people to God in "Mere Christianity." I wonder if that's because he was also a Medievalist. It probably is.
Good video. I will say though that this holds true after the crusades with the rise of towns and cities, but prior to that the vast majority were extremely ignorant, and had very few words in their vocabulary. Even then only in the very best circumstances. My father spent time in eastern Europe toward the end of the war and much of it was still semi feudal owned by land barons. In Poland the peasants were still bowing down to the clergy. My great grandparents were still part of the fuedal l system in Pomerania until it was broken up in the late 1800's. Even then there were still semi fuedal manors in east Germany during the war. The Medieval times have been glorified by fairy tales, movies and romance novels, but make no mistake about it, they were backwards times of hardship and oppression.
Amazing video! Keep these coming! 😀👍
Thank you, glad you enjoy them
Very insightful
Thank you
Nice one! Thank you for more medieval myth busting
We do our best
Huh! Tons of schooling options then. The idea of a new form of secular education and widespread literacy as a foundation for the renaissance has blown my mind a bit. Thanks!
Yes the schooling system and education of medieval children had massive impacts on how the middle class was able to rise in society, the rise of the more secular professional classes into the ranks of government and the growth of education coupled with the wealth falling into an educated merchant elite who funded arts and universities all were contributors.
This is why education is super important
I wonder if this applies to other parts of the world like the middle east, asia and africa as well during middle ages. Did they for example have "foreign exchange" programs? I'd love to know anyone's thoughts :P
I thoroughly enjoyed this video .
These are some good questions and something I am not really qualified to answer. I do know that China and Korea had schooling, though to what level I'm not sure and there was schools in the Islamic empire. But beyond that I am unsure.
Whoop whoop!
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Wow that last point was quite the mic drop. Church power wanes as urbanization creates more secular power, shifting tides towards the Renaissance. I'd like to hear you expand more on how that tension develops between the Church educated professionals and those secular.
P.S. you were using the word ecumenical, but I suppose you meant ecclesiastical. Cheers.
😏 always leave the best for last. I do have plans to talk about the educated professional classes in the future
I suppose I was meaning ecclesiastical, nice spotting.
Would you have an idea of the actual proportion of people in the total population that received education, in the cathedral schools or municipal ones? Because it's not clear what an "increase" in something actually means, and how evenly did education permeate in society vs just the wealthy class.
Off the top of my head I'd not be able to say what any statistics would be I'm afraid without rereading the sourced materials being that it was such a long time since writing this video.
If I remember the use of the term "increase" was a writing attempt to move past a information dump in which I'd had multiple examples of secular school attendances increasing. Not the best way to share information I know.
As for how evenly was education spread, while the wealthy did educate their children education was not relegated to an elite few, the middle class was active in setting up secular schools and creating charitable schools for poor children and girls. Likewise the rural workers received schooling from traveling scholars and priests who were paid to teach village children basic literacy and numeracy.
what about things like sex education? with most medieval families sharing a single large bed, was that just something they learned by observation? i'm sure, given the areas' individual stances on sex that the church may or may not inform people on this subject, but they all learned it from somewhere, yea? we're all here, after all
This is not my field of knowledge, as far as I know much of what was taught about sex came from the church. Rosalie of Rosalie Medieval Women would be much better to answer these questions if you are interested to know more.
I love the idea of Medieval people using the study of the natural world, the human mind, and even mathematics to understand the nature of God. If there is one, it would make sense for one to seek an understanding of Him through the world He made and the minds He gave us.
Curiously, that seems to have been C.S. Lewis' tactic in introducing people to God in "Mere Christianity." I wonder if that's because he was also a Medievalist. It probably is.
I had not considered that about C.S Lewis, but now you bring it up that does make sense.
Good video. I will say though that this holds true after the crusades with the rise of towns and cities, but prior to that the vast majority were extremely ignorant, and had very few words in their vocabulary. Even then only in the very best circumstances. My father spent time in eastern Europe toward the end of the war and much of it was still semi feudal owned by land barons. In Poland the peasants were still bowing down to the clergy. My great grandparents were still part of the fuedal l system in Pomerania until it was broken up in the late 1800's. Even then there were still semi fuedal manors in east Germany during the war.
The Medieval times have been glorified by fairy tales, movies and romance novels, but make no mistake about it, they were backwards times of hardship and oppression.