What was the difference between a monastic school and a cathedral school?
Why was Latin such an important language at school?
Where did medieval women study?
Why were university students so badly behaved?
This book answers all these questions and gives readers an in-depth look at education in medieval times. Learn about the different kinds of schools and find out why the Church played such an important role in education. Discover who went to school and the subjects they learned. Read about the first universities in Europe, and how education progressed in five hundred years of medieval living.