Bishop Fulbert teaching at Chartres

1005

The cathedral school on the Beauce plain emerged as one of Europe's leading centers of learning under Fulbert, who had been educated in mathematics at Reims. Students studied Boethius, Cicero, and the new Arabic astronomy filtering across the Pyrenees from Muslim Spain into Latin Christendom. Fulbert's emphasis on the liberal arts helped establish Chartres as an intellectual beacon that would shine for two centuries.