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Christianity had a significant impact on the intellectual life of emerging European civilization, primarily through the influence of Cassiodorus, monasticism, trivium and quadrivium, and through the works of the Christian philosophers and Church leaders Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm, Saint Boniface, Saint Benedict, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. These prominent Christians and the monasteries they established enabled Europe to rediscover classical learning and philosophy, and they deserve much of the credit for the emergence of higher learning and the development of elevated intellectual discourse in medieval Europe.

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The Impact of Christianity on the Intellectual Life of Emerging European Civilization Christianity had a significant impact on the intellectual life of emerging European civilization, primarily through the influence of Cassiodorus, monasticism, trivium and quadrivium, and through the works of the Christian philosophers and Church leaders Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm, Saint Boniface, Saint Benedict, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. These prominent Christians and the monasteries they established enabled Europe to rediscover classical learning and philosophy, and they deserve much of the

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