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quadrivium
[ kwo-driv-ee-uhm ]
noun
- (during the Middle Ages) the more advanced division of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
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Origin of quadrivium1
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These subjects were the Trivium, and the more advanced Quadrivium.
After completing the trivium, those who wished for higher culture studied the quadrivium.
Among the old Romans, a trivium meant a place where three ways met, and a quadrivium where four, or what we now call a cross-road.
Likewise arithmetic and the rest of the quadrivium have place in the clerics education.
Passing to the Quadrivium, we find that Fulbert had studied its four branches under Gerbert.
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