For example, on the one hand, when St Thomas Aquinas in his great
mediaeval theological works treats theology as the «queen of the sciences», yet «the subordination of metaphysics to theology did not necessarily entail an obstruction to the
study of nature» (p. 81)-- it «had not resulted in a sterile fusion» (p. 84).
95 Jump up W. R. Valentiner, The Bamberg Rider
Studies of
Mediaeval German Sculpture, Zeitlin Ver Brugge, 1956 online excerpts.