trivium

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She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

The three arts of the trivium relate to the mind, and the four of the quadrivium to matter.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

It taught the three arts, Latin grammar, rhetoric and dialectics, known as the trivium.

From Colleges in America by Barker, John Marshall

Progress in wisdom was to be obtained, so far as secular knowledge was concerned, by the “seven ascents of theoretical discipline,” i.e. the trivium and the quadrivium.

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William