In Anselm’s day it had long been traditional for theology to be done meditatively in the monasteries; yet a phenomenon was on the rise: the new secular schools of theology, where theology would be learnt through debate. It was these schools (schola) that would host the scholastic style of doing theology (something we will meet properly in the next chapter). Anselm has sometimes been called the father of scholasticism. Yet Anselm was a monk. And, while later material of his, such