trivium
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The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
For years it was practically all that was studied—for the medieval trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic reduced itself to this—and they not only read a great deal but wrote and spoke Latin.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
Early university studies were in two parts, the trivium —grammar, rhetoric, and logic, and the quadrivium— music, astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
After completing the trivium, those who wished for higher culture studied the quadrivium.
From History of Education by Levi Seeley
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