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Crash Course History of Science #11: Cathedrals and Universities

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Until roughly 1100, there were relatively few places of knowledge-making in Medieval Europe. Monasteries and abbeys had special rooms called scriptoria where monks copied manuscripts by hand, but the biggest places where knowledge was made were the Gothic cathedrals. Then Universities came along, too. This is the story of those two institutions! [13:21]

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