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context, had been one of the attractions of the great collection
of sentences of Peter Lombard, of the Sic et Non of Abelard,
and the concordances of Discordant Canons that were great
literary labors of this time: ÒQuaestiones were not only
excerpted from their original commentary and issued
separately; they were also transferred to a different kind of
work. . . . Hence we are faced with the difficult problem of
distinguishing between exegesis and systematic doctrinal
teaching.” (p. 75)
The Adagia and Similia of Erasmus, excerpted from every
sort of work, were later transferred into sermons, essays, plays,
and sonnets in the sixteenth century. The real pressure
towards visual schemes and organization came from the
mounting volume of matters to be processed: