Benedictine University traces its roots to the sixth-century founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia, whose monks preserved most of the documents we still have from ancient Greece and Rome and whose monasteries served as islands of civilization through centuries of chaos. The university, for its part, does preserve some important elements of the liberal arts tradition that Benedictine monks did so much to pass along.
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