What was the most basic education in the medieval universities of Europe called

I. The most basic education in the universities of medieval Europe was called guild education.

From the 11th century onwards, the craft guilds and merchant guilds of some cities, as well as the municipal authorities, broke the centuries-old monopoly of the Church on education and founded secular schools on their own initiative. The schools offered courses in grammar and arithmetic according to the needs of urban production, exchange, and social life, and cultivated talents in various fields. The general rise of urban schools contributed to the improvement of the cultural and educational level of the cities, arousing interest in classical art, classical philosophy and the study of Roman law. This new type of school did not rely on the church, but was financed by the tuition fees paid by the students. Principals and teachers were appointed by the guilds and municipal authorities***. This new type of school was widely developed and expanded during the Middle Ages.

Two, the European medieval university of the historical status:

Medieval university is the direct source of modern higher education, is modeled after the guilds on the basis of the organization of the development of teachers and students *** with the composition of the specialized, independent academic and educational institutions. And the initial establishment of a relatively complete system of educational activities, its organizational form, management system, teaching methods, etc. are directly inherited by the modern higher education.

European medieval university is the beginning of modern higher education. There are four subjects: literature, law, medicine and theology, and the seven arts refer to Latin and grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.

Third, the representatives of the European medieval universities:

The more famous European medieval universities are: the University of Salerno in Italy, the University of Bologna, the University of Paris in France, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, the University of Prague in Germany, the United States of America Harvard University.