The Schoolmen

We now turn our attention to the Schoolmen, those "knights of theology" that lived and labored during the brighter part of the Middle Ages, from the eleventh to the fifteenth century of our era, men of brilliant intellectual capacities, who applied the logic of Aristotle to the faith of the Church and for its defense, keen dialecticians, that could with delight dispute about the minutest details of any question, sometimes could seriously ponder the problem how many angels there could be dancing...