Sentence examples for medieval school from inspiring English sources

Tournai was also renowned for a medieval school of sculptors, and the painter Rogier van der Weyden was a native.

Other philosophers, known as nonrealists but often referred to as nominalists, after the medieval school (nominalism), held that there is nothing in reality over and above particular things.

The assumption, one arguably bequeathed to the Western philosophical tradition through Latin Medieval school forms, is that "straightforward argument" is not itself a style, rhetoric, and/or genre but the pure form of rationality and, hence, philosophy.

The criminal history of Villon's life can all too easily obscure the scholar, trained in the rigorous intellectual disciplines of the medieval schools.

The modern Western university evolved from the medieval schools known as studia generalia; they were generally recognized places of study open to students from all parts of Europe.

Because history was not regularly taught in medieval schools or universities, it is not surprising that Otto adopted a more philosophical approach in his Chronica sive historia de duabus civitatibus ("Chronicle or History of the Two Cities").

Although the school of Salerno produced no brilliant genius and no startling discovery, it was the outstanding medical institution of its time and the parent of the great medieval schools soon to be founded at Montpellier and Paris, in France, and at Bologna and Padua, in Italy.

It is notable that the empirical foundations of physiology were being established in the studies of the human body being conducted in medieval schools of medicine and, as the career of Leonardo da Vinci so resplendently illustrates, among artists of the Renaissance, whose interest in accuracy and detail of painting and sculpture led to their careful studies of human anatomy.

"Scholasticism" refers to the intellectual culture characteristic of the medieval schools.

However, the above terminology holds true, in general, for most of the medieval schools.

In their interpretations of Aristotle's natural philosophy and metaphysics and in philosophical thinking generally, the medieval schools were much influenced by Muslim and Jewish thinkers.