Latin Scholastic Curriculum System

Timeline

1. 1100–1150Around the school of Notre-Dame de Paris · FranceIntroductory training was organized around the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music). Cathedral schools and monastic schools, through annotation of Latin texts and exercises in disputation, established the basic teaching forms of scholasticism.
2. c. 1190–1200The scholarly centers of Paris and Oxford · OxfordshirePeter Lombard's Sentences became the standard textbook of theology, and Aristotle's works on logic and natural philosophy entered the curriculum through translation and commentary. Disputatio and quaestio became the core methods of organizing knowledge, driving the chartering of universities in the 13th century.
3. c. 1200–1250University of Paris · FranceThe scholastic curriculum developed from loose scholarly circles into a university system divided into faculties (theology, law, medicine, arts). Latin writing, degree examinations, and faculty autonomy became the paradigm of European higher education.