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The rise of the schoolmen or moderni in the twelfth century
made a sharp break with the ancients of traditional Christian
scholarship.
* We have seen how Marrou had shown that, thanks to
Augustine, Bible study incorporated the ancient egkuklios
paideia or encyclopedic program of grammatica and rhetorica
as it reached definition at the hands of Cicero. Thus it was
scriptural exegesis that ensured the continuity of classical
humanism in the monastic schools from Augustine to Erasmus.
But the rise of the universities in the twelfth century
constituted a radical break with the classical tradition. The
program of the new universities was much centred in dialectica
or scholastic method which had had a heyday at Rome as we
read in S. F. Bonner’s Roman Declamation (p. 43):