Certainly by the 12th century scholars were teaching in the town and their fame had spread to the Continent, particularly to the Sorbonnes in Paris, then Europe's greatest centre of learning.

到了12世纪，学者们开始在城里教学，他们的名声传遍了整个欧洲大陆，尤其是当时欧洲最伟大的学术中心——巴黎索邦大学。