In the chantry schools grammar served, above all, to establish 
oral fidelity.

The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and 
publisher of the authors he read.

Aquinas explains why Socrates, Christ, and Pythagoras avoided 
the publication of their teachings.

The rise of the schoolmen or moderni  in the twelfth century 
made a sharp break with the “ancients” of traditional 
Christian scholarship.

Scholasticism, like Senecanism, was directly related to the oral 
traditions of aphoristic learning.