Medieval Period
The era that spanned from 5th to 15th century in global history has been referred to as the Postclassical Era or the more generally understood name, Middle Ages. The period began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and led into the Renaissance. This time period can be subdivided into three sections, Early, High, and the Late Middle Ages. The main educational focus of this era was training the future clergy.
Monasteries of the Roman Catholic Church were the prime locations of education and literacy, in which monks taught classes. Free education for the poor was officially mandated by the Church when it decreed that every cathedral must assign a master to teach boys too poor to pay the regular fee. Over a few centuries of evolution the first glimpses of what could be recognized as a universities began getting established around Europe in the late 11th and 12th centuries for the study of arts, law, medicine, and theology. Written work became more accessible to a wider class of people through scriptoria, locations that did book-copying, and the promotion of liberal arts led to a broader range of well-educated individuals. Major advanced occurred in art, sculpture, music and architecture which influenced the direction society took towards the age of
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William believed “The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct” (Hamilton, 1862) and “When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.” (Hamilton, 1862) These concepts are some of the key components of Ockham’s razor the problem-solving principles which have made contributions to modern science and modern intellectual cultures. The source of information was taken from a Scottish metaphysician Sir William Hamilton who wrote about causality and the application of Ockham’s razor to those