I'm a European student studying at university in, lets say, the 13th century. How are my studies organized? Was there a concept of a "major" or is that an entirely modern concept? If the concept of majors existed, what were my choices? I've heard a little about the concept of the trivium, but what if I wanted to major in something like political science or sociology? Did they have something analogous to these concepts back then?
Thanks! Sorry if this question has been answered before, I found these but I can't find anything about what "majors" existed outside the trivium.
You found the earlier discussions of medieval universities, kraetos. Let me humbly direct your focus to this discussion I commented on several years back that discusses "majors" among other aspects of uni life. In a nutshell, there were things somewhat like "majors" in the subjects of the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music) in the developed years of the medieval uni.