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 338 THE MASTERS OF THE SCHOOLS AT July describes a state of things at some time between 1139 and 1144. Denifle would place its composition a little later, because he thinks that Peter Lombard did not write his Sentences until between 1145 and 1150 ; ^ but the production of such a work implies that its author had been active as a teacher for some years earlier, and I do not think we need hesitate to assign the Metamorphosis to a date not much later than 1142. It will be well to add some notes about the masters of whom we have as yet said little. 1. The doctor Carnotensis is certainly Theodoric, the brother of Bernard of Chartres. Otto of • Freising, in his account of Abailard, mentions Brittany as fertile in clerks of acute intel- ligence and of minds skilled in the arts, but stupid in matters of business — men, we may take it, with speculative rather than practical gifts — such as were the two brothers, Bernard and Theodoric, men of great learning.^ The order in which he names them implies that Bernard was the elder ; and, indeed, we have seen that Bernard is not heard of after 1124, while Theodoric was active twenty-five years later. Theodoric was most likely the Terricus quidam scholarum magister who is credited by Abailard with a remarkable interruption in the course of his trial before the synod of Soissons in 1121. Abailard was charged with asserting that Grod the Father alone was Almighty ; whereupon the legate observed with astonishment that one could not believe that even a child could fall into such an error : ' cum communis, inquit, fides et teneat et profiteatur tres Omnipotentes esse.' Then was heard the voice of Terric who ' subridendo subintulit illud Athanasii, Et tamen non tres Omnipotentes, sed units Omnipotens '.^ It is natural to believe that Theodoric was master of the schools at Chartres, but Haureau's conjecture ^ that he was chancellor of that church in 1122 is unsupported. He is next found at Paris, where he made a great name as a teacher. His praises are simg in the metrical life of Archbishop Adalbert II of Mainz. Adalbert's studies were pursued at Hildesheim, Rheims (under Alberic), Paris (under Thedric), and Montpellier. He was a noble who lived, according to his biographer, in opulence and ostentation. It is not likely that his course of study was as prolonged as that of a more serious student. It may have begun in 1132 ; it certainly ended before June 1137. During this time, perhaps in 1134, he attended Thedric 's teaching at Paris in rhetoric and logic* Not long after this John of Salisbury also > Arch, fur Liter, und Kirchengesch. i. (1885), 606-11.
 * Oesta Friderici, i. 47 (49). * Abaelardi EpiaL i.
 * Mimoires de PAcad. des Inscr. xxxi. ii. 80.
 * Monumenta MogurUina, ed. Jaflf^, pp. 689 f, 1866.