Editing Chartres Cathedral (section)

==The School of Chartres==
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[[File:Pythagore-chartres.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Pythagoras]] on one of the [[archivolts]] over the right door of the west portal at Chartres]]

At the beginning of the 11th century, [[Fulbert of Chartres|Bishop Fulbert]] besides rebuilding the cathedral, established Chartres as a [[cathedral school]], an important center of religious scholarship and theology. He attracted important theologians, including [[Thierry of Chartres]], [[William of Conches]] and the Englishman [[John of Salisbury]]. These men were at the forefront of the intense intellectual rethinking that culminated in what is now known as the [[Renaissance of the 12th century|twelfth-century renaissance]], pioneering the [[scholasticism|Scholastic]] philosophy that came to dominate medieval thinking throughout Europe. By the mid-12th century, the role of Chartres had waned, as it was replaced by the [[University of Paris]] as the leading school of theology. The primary activity of Chartres became pilgrimages.<ref>Loren C. MacKinney, ''Bishop Fulbert and Education at the School of Chartres'', Univ. of Notre Dame Indiana, 1956</ref>