Blurb:

A science-like intellectual activity did not entirely disappear from the post-Alexandrian Mediterranean world. However, by the fifth and sixth centuries of the Common Era that mode of thought reached its lowest ebb. Between 500 and 1000 CE there was no longer a community of thinkers who could both comprehend and promote this kind of high-level naturalistic thought. Nevertheless, this period of history also harboured significant political, legal, and social transformations, and intellectual developments that contributed to a renewed interest in the natural world.