Each of the seven liberal arts -grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy arts is discussed in an individual essay written by a specialist in the field. These essays examine the establishment of the medieval concept of the arts in the post-classical writings of the Latin encyclopedists, briefly treat their history from the eighth through the Twelfth- Century, and discuss the detail the stimulating influence, during the High Middle Ages, The Twelfth-Century Renaissance and recover of Greek learning from the Arabs.