... Alberto points out that universities and schools were established in the Middle Ages. In addition, nation-states became established, with their major cities. There was a period of cultural and population decline, as feudalism set in and bartering once again became the form of payment. But the Pope was set up as head of the Church, and kings began to become very powerful. Greco-Roman culture split up and then came together again in the Renaissance. St. Augustine was a Christian Platonist who brought Plato's philosophy into Christianity. He went out of his way to unite Greek and Jewish thought. His great book was called the City of God and he suggested that salvation came only through the Church. St. Thomas Aquinas brought Aristotle into the Christian religion and he tried to show that reason and faith do not come into conflict. She also learns that one of the female philosophers at ...

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