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We have to keep in mind that there was no organized
system of education outside the universities. So that after the
Renaissance “we find frequent allusions to the fact at Paris in
the small classes of certain colleges, teaching commenced with
the alphabet.” We have, moreover, data on students in the
college who were under ten years of age. But, certainly, for the
medieval university we have to keep in mind that it “embraced
all the levels of instruction from the most elementary to the
most advanced.” Specialism in our sense was unknown and all
levels of instruction tended to be inclusive rather than
exclusive. Certainly this inclusive character applies to the art of
writing at this period; for writing implied all that to the ancient
and medieval world was grammatica or philologia .
At the opening of the twelfth century, says Hajnal (p.
39), there had been “for some centuries an important system