  Turning to those literary forms that can be assumed to have had an educational or scholarly purpose, the kind of texts that bring us most closely into contact with the daily reality of philosophy classes are undoubtedly the collections of questions and answers that have been handed down from the 1040s to 1070s, the most well-known of which is perhaps the Quaestiones quodlibetales by John Italos (c. 1025–after 1082).