Category:Seven liberal arts

The seven liberal arts (Latin: septem artes liberales), which were distinguished from the practical arts, the so-called artes mechanicae, as the higher-ranking ones, comprised a systematically ordered canon of seven subjects of study. They were divided into the trivium (three-way) of the linguistically and logically-argumentatively oriented subjects, in which Latin was cultivated as the basic language of science, and the more advanced quadrivium (four-way) of the mathematically oriented subjects.