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The Seven Liberal Arts

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Education in medieval Europe, especially as it was manifested in the universities of the High and Late Middle Ages, was organized around the curriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts.  These consisted of the Trivium of the language-oriented fields—Grammar, Rhetoric, and Dialectic (also called Logic)—and the Quadrivium, the numeral-oriented disciplines of Artithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy.  
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