![]() ![]() It is a very shrewd and just remark, and the important and original point was the dwarf could see a little further than the giant. is not a great claim neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity. sums up the quality of the cathedral schools in the history of learning, and indeed characterizes the age which opened with Gerbert (950–1003) and Fulbert (960–1028) and closed in the first quarter of the 12th century with Peter Abelard. Īccording to medieval historian Richard Southern, Bernard is comparing the modern scholar (12th century) to the ancient scholars of Greece and Rome: He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature. In 1159, John wrote in his Metalogicon: īernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. The attribution to Bernard is due to John of Salisbury. 2 References during the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. ![]()
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