In the cathedral school of twelfth-century Chartres, Thierry of Chartres, William of Conches, and Bernard of Chartres taught their students that the natural world and the classical inheritance were themselves a kind of Scripture, and that creation itself was a book to be read alongside the Bible with the same reverence and attention.
“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, who can see more, and farther, than they not because of any keenness of our sight, but because we are lifted up high upon their stature.”
— BERNARD OF CHARTRES
