Lyons, Paris, and Koln borrowed from it their professors: it was through its influence indeed that Oxford rose to a position hardly inferior to that of Paris itself as a centre of scholasticism.

But the result of this powerful impulse was soon seen to be fatal to the wider intellectual activity which had till now characterized the Universities.
Theology in its scholastic form resumed its supremacy in the schools.

Its only efficient rivals were practical studies such as medicine and law.

The last, as he was by far the greatest, instance of the freer and wider culture which had been the glory of the last century, was Roger Bacon, and no name better illustrates the rapidity and completeness with which it passed away.
[Sidenote: Roger Bacon] Roger Bacon was the child of royalist parents who were driven into exile and reduced to poverty by the civil wars.

From Oxford, where he studied under Edmund of Abingdon to whom he owed his introduction to the works of Aristotle, he passed to the University of Paris, and spent his whole heritage there in costly studies and experiments.