WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cathedral schools began in the Early Middle Ages as centers of advanced education, some of them ultimately evolving into medieval universities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Starting in the 1200s, cathedral schools gave rise to Latin grammar and rhetoric, logic, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James began life in 1917 as a humble girls’ school with seventy-one students. Originally called St Anne’s Church of England Girls’ School, the campus consisted of a single building in the middle of Townsville city – where the City Council now stands.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first of the medieval universities was the University of Bologna, founded in 1088, although its ‘official’ charter from Emperor Frederick Barbarossa came much later, in 1158. Soon after Bologna, universities were founded in Paris and Oxford.

Detailed explanation-5: -Much of medieval thought in philosophy and theology can be found in scholastic textual commentary because scholasticism was such a popular method of teaching.