“I seem to myself to have composed a history not of two cities but virtually of one only, which I call the Church.”7 The true polis or City of Man was now the Church, the voice and champion of the reviving humanism. The very deeply rooted Christian nature of what is called “medieval” Europe must not be under-rated or overlooked, but the Greco-Roman humanism steadily regained ground and conquered the intellectuals of Christendom and triumphed in education. The curriculum was simply an adaptation of