Reading through Chapter 9 of Kennedy, I was struck by how the Medieval rhetors seem to want to consolidate the classical rhetorical traditions into curricula and training rituals. The monks want to pick the best training methods for other monks, and teachers want to choose the best of the rhetorical tradition to help their students. It might be how Kennedy writes it, but I feel like in the Medieval Age, we really see some of the classical rhetoric being truncated and reduced according to the needs of students of different forms.