ABSTRACT
Since virtually everything in Christendom was reshaped by the economic and demographic growth of the eleventh through to the thirteenth centuries, it is no surprise that education was transformed as well. In 1000 advanced learning was concentrated in a few monastic and cathedral schools. In 1300 the leading institutions of advanced learning were the universities, of which there were perhaps twenty. At a humbler level, there was in 1300 a considerable and still growing network of lower schools which taught the basics of literacy in Latin and in the vernaculars. In those three centuries there were massive increases in the number of students and teachers. There were also significant changes in the organization and curricula of the schools.
