Abstract
The twelfth century was an epoch of abundant vitality It is remarkable for its classical revival as well as for its histonographical activity John of Salisbury, who had been a student at the cathedral school of Chartres, was a typical humanist, imbued with classical culture But in spite of the fact that he might have been an excellent historian, he disdained to become one Orderic Vital, a monk of St Evroul, who wrote a voluminous "Ecclesiastical History", was scarcely influenced by classical culture
