Medieval Paradigm

Medieval culture is marked by a general acceptance of the mental attitude which both recognized and accepted the thruts of the dominant religion. This situation is, then, the general paradigm that programmatically directs the paths and results of the intellectual activity in the Middle Ages. In the various fields of scientific research, in the different epochs and in the manifold social and institutional situations, there are also produced, based on the general paradigm, many particular paradigms, which carry out some specified and graduated effects of the general one. The idea pursued during the Congress is an attempt to determine, describe and evaluate the general and particular results the paradigm had on the maturation of medieval philosophical and scientific thought with regard to the relationship between rational inquiry and religious belief.