The medieval European understanding of liberal arts, based partially on a reinterpretation of classical ideas, suggested that elites needed an open-ended education based on the trivium and ...

Developed as the centerpiece of secular higher education in Europe during the Middle Ages, the traditional liberal arts covered seven subjects: the “trivium” of grammar, logic and rhetoric ...

One of the books on my elementary-grammar shelf is The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, by Sister Miriam Joseph, published in 1937 and written to serve as a text for a ...

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary gives two definitions of the liberal arts. The first refers to the course of studies in medieval universities comprising the trivium—the three arts of the humanities ...

One of the greatest defenses of the liberal arts in America was written just 37 years after the Civil War by W.E.B. Du Bois. “ The Souls of Black Folk ” is probably best known today as a ...

The liberal arts, artes liberates ... though they comprised at least the sacred seven that later ages knew as the Trivium of Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic, and the Quadrivium of Arithmetic, ...

Modern educators jettisoned the trivium, but its rediscovery began with Dorothy L. Sayers’s influential essay The Lost Tools of Learning (1947). Sayers was an English novelist and a friend of C ...

When people hear the term ‘liberal arts,’ it may sound like a phrase with political overtones. A scholar of literature explains why that’s wrong and takes a closer look at its origin and ...

Herrad of Landesburg, “The Seven Liberal Arts,” ca. 1180 (photo: Public Domain) Derek Rotty Blogs February 3, 2023 We are approaching the end of Catholic Schools Week.

In time, there were seven of them: grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The trivium ... 'The point of liberal arts is not the teaching of a content.