School-based tuition developed only at the end of 11th century, mainly in the monasteries and churches. Basic instruction, held in Latin, encompassed the seven liberal arts: the trivium – grammar, Latin, rhetoric, dialectic – and the quadrivium – mathematics, geometry, astronomy, and church music. During the high Middle Ages there were two-tier Latin schools for boys – girls were only very rarely educated. Indeed, education in general did not carry the weight it does today; most noblemen and wealthy burghers were illiterate, hiring scribes and scriveners as needed.
Later on the towns came to host centres of secular education, with the ultimate flowering thereof being the establishment in 1348 of an international format university in Prague by Emperor Charles IV.
School-based tuition developed only at the end of 11th century, mainly in the monasteries and churches. Basic instruction, held in Latin, encompassed the seven liberal arts: the trivium – grammar, Latin, rhetoric, dialectic – and the quadrivium – mathematics, geometry, astronomy, and church music. During the high Middle Ages there were two-tier Latin schools for boys – girls were only very rarely educated. Indeed, education in general did not carry the weight it does today; most noblemen and wealthy burghers were illiterate, hiring scribes and scriveners as needed.
Later on the towns came to host centres of secular education, with the ultimate flowering thereof being the establishment in 1348 of an international format university in Prague by Emperor Charles IV.