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IN THE EARLY twelfth century, Paris established its preeminence as a city of learning both by surpassing the other cathedral cities of Northern France in the number and prominence of its schools and by becoming the undisputed educational center in all of Western Europe for the study of the liberal arts and theology.
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nona sabbati, erat studium, servi illi, modo geniti infantes, educational preeminence, annorum duodecim, nascent corporation, licentia docendi, monastic opposition, libri naturales, scholarly privileges, logical arts, clerical ignorance, studying civil law, other moralists, single guild, papal judge delegate, prominent masters, nascent university, theology masters, arte praedicandi, secular arts, secular clerics, humane learning, educational attitudes
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John of Salisbury, Jacques of Vitry, Peter Abelard, Peter of Poitiers, Peter Comestor, Robert Pullen, Peter Lombard, Stephen Langton, Raoul Ardent, Alan of Lille, Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter of Blois, Gilbert of Poitiers, Stephen of Tournai, William of Champeaux, Notre Dame, Peter the Chanter, Bernard of Chartres, Gerald of Wales, Peter of Celle, William of Conches, Left Bank, Nigel Wireker, Alexander Neckham, Thomas Becket
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