" There is a lot of interesting material here in the first seven chapters--the author describes how Aristotle's work was largely lost in the West, how it was preserved in the Islamic world, and then translated in the 11th century in Muslim Spain and brought back to Latin Western Europe. He relates the development of Aristotelian thought in the high medieval Church, its impact on the growth of scholastic thought in the universities, its entanglement in controversies between the Dominicans and the Franciscans, and its eventual ossification as the Catholic status quo by the end of the middle ages. A number of the author's observations on the general medieval historical framework in which Aristotelian intellectual took place are rather suspect, and the final chapter about "faith vs reason" in our own times does not add much to the book, Recommended for you medievalists out there. "
— Steve, 2/5/2014