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  1.  In the chantry schools grammar served, above all, to establish 
  2. oral fidelity.
  3.  
  4. The medieval student had to be paleographer, editor, and 
  5. publisher of the authors he read.
  6.  
  7. Aquinas explains why Socrates, Christ, and Pythagoras avoided 
  8. the publication of their teachings.
  9.  
  10. The rise of the schoolmen or moderni  in the twelfth century 
  11. made a sharp break with the ‚Äúancients‚Äù of traditional 
  12. Christian scholarship.
  13.  
  14. Scholasticism, like Senecanism, was directly related to the oral 
  15. traditions of aphoristic learning.