Despite his enormous productivity, his renown among his contemporaries, and his considerable influence on his successors (from students and contemporaries such as John of Salisbury and Bernard Silvestris to such fourteenth-century humanists as Geoffrey...

William of Conches William of Conches, the twelfth-century Chartrain philosopher, was born at Conches in Normandy at the end of the eleventh century. He probably studied under Bernard of Chartres, learning at least grammar from him, and began teaching...

Chartres, School Of A cathedral school existed at Chartres as early as the sixth century but did not become famous until the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Under Bishop Fulbert (d. 1028), a pupil of Gerbert of Aurillac, students, among them Berengar...

(ca. 1085–ca. 1154). Named by John of Salisbury as one of his teachers, William is most often associated with the so-called School of Chartres, as a student of Bernard of Chartres and a master there, although Richard W.Southern has called into...

William of Conches (c. 1090–after 1154) was a French scholastic philosopher. He sought to expand the bounds of Christian humanism by studying secular works of the classics and fostering empirical science. John of Salisbury, a bishop of Chartres...

Please take a gander at my body, spandex-coated and melancholy at the very beginning of my health remake about five years ago. I could have won the Giant Mutant Ham Hock contest hands-down. Now, as I prepare to change gears and end Fit...

The Conch Republic is conched out. The mollusk meat in the conch chowder sold at just about any restaurant in the Florida Keys probably came from Jamaica or South America. There just aren't enough conch left to harvest in the Florida Keys, despite...