Reason and the Church
Players may assume the Catholic Church is the enemy of learning. They are familar with the late medieval/Renaissance church that gave Copernicus and Galileo such a hard time. However, that is not necessarily the case. As with other things, the church is still evolving into the form it will later take. As of 1007, its future is unclear. In many ways, it is still a patron of reason and learning.
The general position of the church in 1007 is that reason is important for understanding the world — including God — but not as important as faith. This position is still not fully formed, however — it won't become official church policy until the 13th century, when St. Thomas Aquinas solidifies it (The church will then reverse itself in the 14th century, and declare that reason is not important at all.). So, at this point the church is more likely to act as a patron of learning and reason, but it may also be found, less often, in the role of an enemy to learning and reason.
A perfect example of the church's ambivalent nature is Pope Sylvester II (pope from 999-1003). He was a true intellectual: he studied mathematics, introduced the concept of regular and systematic university education to Europe, and was passionate about astronomy. The fact that such a well-learned man could become pope speaks of the respect for learning in the church. However, Sylvester was also slandered — it was said that he practiced black magic learned from Arab sorcerers, and even that he was secretly a Jewish infiltrator. This shows that there was also widespread distrust in the church of learning and education. It also shows one reason education is distrusted — it is associated with Moslems and Jews.