Paetow—Neglect of the Ancient Classics. 319 
red at Paris in the second half of the fourteenth century but 
that too was sporadic and had no permanent results. In Eng¬ 
land, Oxford became the center of a group of humanists who 
had received their inspiration from Italy. But on the whole 
the courses of study at the universities were scarcely at all mod¬ 
ified prior to 1500. Dating from the very end of the fifteenth 
century we have a program of studies offered by a master of 
arts at Montpelier, which is entirely humanistic in character. 
Aristotle is set aside entirely, logic and philosophy are slight¬ 
ed whereas the main stress is laid upon oratory (ars oratoria) 
which comprises the study of a considerable number of classical 
authors. 1 This however, is an almost isolated exception which 
proves the rule that the medieval universities had very little to 
do with the humanistic movennent of the fourteenth and fif¬ 
teenth centuries. 
i Founier—Statutes, No. 1206, p. 278. (1496) 
