I think "learning and scholarship" is stretching the truth - the primary caretaker in preserving ancient scholarship, yes. But what new research and learning wa

I think "learning and scholarship" is stretching the truth - the primary caretaker in preserving ancient scholarship, yes. But what new research and learning was going on? The really hot stuff was going on in the Arabic world at that time. While the monks were carfully copying old books, Al-Khwārizmī was busy moving forward.