Word: quadruvian
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...upper hand. These corporations became faculties in the thirteenth century in somewhat the following way: Comparatively little specialized teaching existed at Paris towards the end of the twelfth century, and most of the Masters in Arts only taught the "trivial arts," as Grammar, Rhetoric and Dialectics, While the Quadruvian was reserved for higher art students. Thus the teachers of arts would have their fees reduced by the graduates of of the Chancellor. However, with the necessity of more specialized teaching the board which drew the professors of any of the four disciplines together would strengthen the separate unions...
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