What kinds of developments occurred during the renaissance of the twelfth century? According to Wikipedia “The epoch of the Crusades, of the rise of towns, and of the earliest bureaucratic states of the West, it saw the culmination of Romanesque art, and the beginnings of Gothic; the emergence of the vernacular literatures; the revival of the Latin classics and of Latin poetry and Roman law; the recovery of Greek science.”

What was Scholastic philosophy? According to Wikipedia “Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a Critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelian 10 Categories.”

A brief overview of the life and work of Thomas Aquinas. According to Google, “His best-known works are the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259), the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265), and the unfinished but massively influential Summa Theologica, or Summa Theologiae (1265–1274). His commentaries on Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work.“