Dear Professor Carey, Thank you very much for your answer. To be honest, the review of the relevant issues in the twelfth century, especially the ones related to the school of Chartres would require such a thorough research that exceeds the scope of my dissertation project on the eleventh century. Nevertheless, I admit that twelfth-century texts add further prospectives to the study of the objection against the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages. Yours sincerely, Elod Nemerkenyi Rutgers University Department of Classics %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%