Context: European higher education took place for hundreds of years in Christian cathedral schools or monastic schools (scholae monasticae), in which monks and nuns taught classes; evidence of these immediate forerunners of the later university at many places dates back to the 6th century. The earliest universities were developed under the aegis of the Latin Church by papal bull as studia generalia and perhaps from cathedral schools. It is possible, however, that the development of cathedral schools into universities was quite rare, with the University of Paris being an exception. Later they were also founded by Kings (University of Naples Federico II, Charles University in Prague, Jagiellonian University in Kraków) or municipal administrations (University of Cologne, University of Erfurt). In the early medieval period, most new universities were founded from pre-existing schools, usually when these schools were deemed to have become primarily sites of higher education. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries.

Question: What is a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monastic schools

Question: Who presided over classes at a scholae monasticae?
Answer: monks and nuns

Question: In the chronology of academic institutions, where are Christian cathedral schools compared to universities?
Answer: immediate forerunners

Question: What church is said to be responsible for the formation of universities?
Answer: Latin Church

Question: During which era did universities grow out of already extant schools?
Answer: early medieval period

Question: Where did education originally take place across the world?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What type of schools forbid women to teach?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What began in the 600's?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What church encouraged but did not get directly involved in forming universities?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What caused most existing schools to decline?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who presided over universities?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: During which era did universities grow out of monasteries?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What were the earliest monasteries developed under?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are three monasteries started by Kings?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Where were most new universities funded from?
Answer: Unanswerable