Confirmed - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-wicked-decided-that-west-needed-to.html?m=0
The first two universities appeared in Paris and Bologna, in the middle of the twelfth century. Then, Oxford and Cambridge were founded about 1200, followed by a flood of new institutions during the remainder of the thirteenth century: Toulouse, Orléans, Naples, Salamanca, Seville, Lisbon, Grenoble, Padua, Rome, Perugia, Pisa, Modena, Florence, Prague, Cracow, Vienna, Heidelberg, Cologne, Ofen, Erfurt, Leipzig, and Rostock.[2]
These were the institutions where science was born.[3] Contrary to much modern propaganda which portrays this era as a dark age, it was actually an age where progress was being made in many of the scientific disciplines that would make our modern world possible.
This is because scientific enquiry was part of the culture of these institutions. Building on the work of the ancient Greeks, rather than just preserving it, brilliant men made much progress on various aspects of the scientific body of knowledge. -
Most Americans and Europeans are well aware that they belong to a culture that has long been shaped by its love of science and engineering. But ask them what era in our history that technological impulse can be traced to, and I suppose that most would either say it began with the ancient Greeks, or else during the Renaissance and the “Scientific Revolution” around the year 1500.
Few think of the Christian Middle Ages as a time of great innovations, a time when mathematics, science, and especially engineering came to matter in daily life to a degree that would have stunned the ancients. This ignorance, on the part of most people now living, is a crying shame.
