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The period of European history that we call the Middle Ages was profoundly religious. But our appreciation of that aspect of medieval culture should not obscure our awareness of the vibrancy of its philosophical currents. (...) the era was deeply indebted to the literature and learning of the ancient world as to the traditions of reason and revelation that came from nascent Christianity and its roots in Judaism.