The curriculum in the Middle Ages consisted of the ‘seven liberal arts’. The first three—grammar, logic and rhetoric—formed the trivium, and the other four—music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy—made up the...

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The quadrivium comprised the four subjects, or arts, taught in medieval universities after the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning "the four ways" or "the four roads": the completion of the liberal arts. At many medieval universities, this would have...