Artes Liberales

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Septem Artes Liberales (The Seven Liberal Arts) in Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus Deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).
Septem Artes Liberales (The Seven Liberal Arts) in Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus Deliciarum
(The Garden of Delights)
.

Artes Liberales was medieval and earlier nomenclature for the Trivium and Quadrivium (artes triviales and artes quadriviales), the education and training deemed suitable for free persons (Latin liber: free), as distinct from the artes illiberales for the less (or not) free, now broadly termed Vocational education.


The Trivium, the artes sermocinales:


The Quadrivium, the artes reales or physicæ:


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