On pg 119, a monk is teaching to a class at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Although the vast majority of the students are male (there are over 30), there are 5 female students.
-After the protestant reformations, society was not as patriarchical as before.
-Under Queen Elizabeth of Castille in Spain and Queen Elizabeth II in England, noble women were encouraged to get a formal education.
-Vast majority still male students
-Education opened to a wider range of students, because the need for educated men was increasing, especially in the field of law
-from nobels (esquires) to peasants (plebians)
-biggest group was "hidalgos", or lesser nobels aspiring to church or government positions.
-hundreds of english "grammar schools" and french "colleges" were started by the philanthropy of the upper class
-Oxford
-Cambridge
-Eton
-Ursiline sisters
-Salamanca
-Harrow
-beginning of the concept of universal education
-education by no means was universal, but the importance of a good education in life was beginning to be recognized more than before
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