The Middle Ages as a whole and throughout their duration – with all the ambiguity of their chronological boundaries and of the very expression "Middle Ages" – prove to be an incomparable season of the culture of reason.

Inos Biffi, Atlante storico della cultura medievale in Occidente, (Roberto Barbieri; Milano, Città Nuova - Jaca Book, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 124-27). As quoted in in Francesco Lamendola, Il Medioevo fu un'incomparabile stagione di cultura della ragione (February 2, 2009)