History/Church History
We learned a lot about feudalism this week and the benefits and disadvantages it brought to the church. Zachary, dialectic, enjoyed exploring the Middle Ages pages at the eMuseum of Minnesota State University Mankato
Philosophy
Anselm of Canterbury's works were examined this week. Our readings and discussions, which made our brains ache, led to an examination of the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise by Zeno.
Literature
Lower Grammar - The Usborne Official Knights Handbook
Dialectic - Zachary finished The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow.
Rhetoric - Ben is reading Inferno and is enjoying it immensely.
Memory Work
Ethan is memorizing The Ten Commandments.
Zach: The Rules of Chivalry
Thou shalt believe all the church teaches and observe all its directions
Thou shalt defend the church
Thou shalt respect all weaknesses and shalt constitute thyself the defender of them
Thou shalt love the country in which thou wast born
Thou shalt not recoil before thine enemy
Thou shalt make war against the Infidel without cessation and without mercy
Thou shalt perform scrupulously the feudal duties, if they be not contrary to the laws of God
Thou shalt never lie and remain faithful to thy pledged word
Thou shalt be generous and give largesse to everyone
Thou shalt be everywhere and always the champion of the Right and Good and the foe of Injustice and Evil
Copywork
Ethan: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.
Zach: "...The wicked knight leapt suddenly upon him, cutting off the top of the crown which the unction of sacred chrism had dedicated to God. Next he received a second blow on the head, but still he stood firm and immovable. At the third blow he fell on his knees and elbows, offering himself a living sacrifice, and saying in a low voice, 'For the name of Jesus and the protection of the Church, I am ready to embrace death.' But the third knight inflicted a terrible wound as he lay prostrate. By this stroke, the crown of his head was separated from the head in such a way that the blood white with the brain, and the brain no less red from the blood, dyed the floor of the cathedral. The same clerk who had entered with the knights placed his foot on the neck of the holy priest and precious martyr, and, horrible to relate, scattered the brains and blood about the pavements, crying to the others, 'Let us away, knights; this fellow will arise no more." Edward Grim was a clerk from Cambridge who was visiting Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday 29 December 1170 when Thomas Becket was murdered.
Recitation and Commonplace Book
"Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate;
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master, hard to me!"
And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned,
All cowardice must needs be here extinct.
We to the place have come, where I have told thee
Thou shalt behold the people dolorous
Who have foregone the good of intellect."
And after he had laid his hand on mine
With joyful mien, whence I was comforted,
He led me in among the secret things.
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