Trivium · I
Grammar
Before any argument can be tested, something must be said. Grammar studies the saying itself — the word, the sentence, the histories words carry — as the instrument every other art must play.
I. What the Studium has
No demonstration yet
No demonstration exists for this art yet. What the Studium has of it is the Institute's lectures, the pictures in the galleries, the shelf and the Atlas.
II. From the Seven Pillars
Grammar and the Power of Words: the six lectures on this art in the Institute’s certificate course, given on artsofliberty.org and heard there.
- 1The Man of Letters
- 2The Sentence
- 3The Parts of Speech
- 4Etymology and Philology
- 5Orthography and Prosody
- 6No More Words
III. In the galleries
- Typus GrammaticaeWoodcut from Gregor Reisch’s Margarita Philosophica, 1517
- Philosophy and the Seven Liberal ArtsFrom the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, Twelfth century
- The Seven Liberal ArtsFrancesco Pesellino, Painted in the artist’s lifetime, 1422–1457
- The Seven Liberal Arts Persecuted by Pluto and BacchusJost Amman, Sixteenth century
- The Seven Liberal ArtsVirgilius Solis, Sixteenth century
- Philosophy Presenting the Seven Liberal Arts to BoethiusCoëtivy Master (Henri de Vulcop), 1460–1470
IV. In the Library
Nothing on the shelf is filed under grammar yet; the Trivium shelf holds what is nearest.
V. In the Atlas
- Dorothy SayersRecovering the tools of learning
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