Pre-Theological Education at Paris for Monastic Students in the Fourteenth Century

Steps taken in the fourteenth century to bridge the gap between monastic education and university training in arts for young monks at Paris include conciliar and papal legislation as well as order-wide legislation promoting the study of the scientia primitiva . The attraction of advanced studies at Paris and the advantages of having graduates in theology in their houses and orders led to the foundation of colleges and houses of study in Paris offering instruction in Aristotelian philosophy preparatory to theological study.