Given the intractable interpretive controversies of the late medieval period, this development, he suggests, was necessary. (firstthings.com)
Only with the late medieval period's renewed interest in the external world, in the laws of the natural world and in control over the forces of nature did civilization get back on track. (religion-online.org)
This is especially so during the late medieval period and with the thought of the scholastic theologians. (faith.org.uk)