The Later Middle Ages

The Later Middle Ages is best associated with the theory of scholasticism, which was largely based on Aristotelianism. At this time a widespread focus to took place on the education system with the rise of universities. These universities focused on a broader system of education, including grammar, rhetoric, dialect, mathematics, arts, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Men like Boethius, Peter Abelord, and Anselm of Canterbury helped spread the movement of scholasticism throughout the later middle ages.

Peotry at this time was most apparent in the Grammar curriculum. The text states that there was three charactistic types of treatise. The first being commentary, the second, ars metrica, and the third, accessus, which included the prologue to an author.