Important presuppositions of modern culture, which were only latent in medieval culture, can be discerned in Augustine. (religion-online.org)
The mystics (many of them women) brought together the sentimental and the rational in extraordinary ways, while the Franciscans, and Bonaventure in particular, brought to high medieval culture their love of nature and the beautiful. (firstthings.com)
The question arises as to why medieval culture and society disintegrated. (religion-online.org)