Medieval Culture Quick Question: Who were the scholars of the Middle Ages? What language did they...

Medieval Culture

Quick Question:

Who were the scholars of the Middle Ages?

What language did they write in?

Slight problem: Only scholars could read it!

Philosophy

Medieval scholars were often members of the “Regular” Clergy

Obviously they looked to the Christian faith to explain the world around them

They had a problem with Greek philosophy/classic philosophers

Why?

The Greeks weren’t Christian!

Sorry if my ideas don’tcontain anything Christian.We hadn’t heard of it yet

ScholasticismScholasticism was a new philosophy that tried to balance human reason and logic with religious faith

Aristotle used human reason and logic to explain things

Medieval scholars had little use for reason and logic. They wanted a religious explanation for everything.

St. Thomas Aquinas was a famous Scholastic philosopher.

I’ll prove that every point of churchdoctrine can be arrived at by

logic and reason as wellas faith!

Architecture

Church architecture was the dominant form of expression.

People started to get wealthy, because of growth of trade.

They used their wealth to create monuments to God.

Early church architecture was Romanesque

Thick walls and small windows

Kinda looks like a barn,

no?

Gothic ArchitectureGothic Architecture replaced Romanesque

Canterbury Cathedral, England

Large Windows

Thinner Walls

How’d they do it?

Notre Dame, Paris

It’s the Flying Buttresses

Flying Buttresses

Gargoyles