Scholasticism
in philosophy and Church history, the name given to a move- SCHONBERG ment which began with the opening of cloister schools by Charlemagne (742- 814), attained its greatest development in the early part of the 13th century tunder Aquinas and Scotus, and, after receiving a check from the labors of Roger Bacon (1214-1292) and the criticism of at the Renaissance. Scholasticism was Occam (died 1349), gradually subsided the reproduction of ancient philosophy under the control of ecclesiastical discipline, the former being accommodated to the latter in case of any discrepancy between them. It had two chief periods: In the first period arose the Nominalists and the Realists; in the second the Sco tists and the Thomists.