The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The European Book in the Twelfth Century

Author: Erik Kwakkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 110862765X

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The 'long twelfth century' (1075–1225) was an era of seminal importance in the development of the book in medieval Europe and marked a high point in its construction and decoration. This comprehensive study takes the cultural changes that occurred during the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' as its point of departure to provide an overview of manuscript culture encompassing the whole of Western Europe. Written by senior scholars, chapters are divided into three sections: the technical aspects of making books; the processes and practices of reading and keeping books; and the transmission of texts in the disciplines that saw significant change in the period, including medicine, law, philosophy, liturgy, and theology. Richly illustrated, the volume provides the first in-depth account of book production as a European phenomenon.

Europe's Long Twelfth Century
Europe's Long Twelfth Century

Author: John Cotts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-11-09

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1137296089

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Between 1095 and 1229, Western Europe confronted a series of alternative cultural possibilities that would fundamentally transform its social structures, its intellectual life, and its very identity. It was a period of difficult decisions and anxiety rather than a triumphant 'renaissance'. In this fresh reassessment of the twelfth century, John D. Cotts: - Shows how new social, economic and religious options challenged Europeans to re-imagine their place in the world - Provides an overview of political life and detailed examples of the original thought and religious enthusiasm of the time - Presents the Crusades as the century's defining movement. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this is an essential overview of a pivotal era in medieval history that arguably paved the way for a united Europe.

The European Book in the Twelfth Century
The European Book in the Twelfth Century

Author: Erik Kwakkel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-07-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1107136989

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The first comprehensive study of the European book in the historical period known as the 'long twelfth century' (1075-1225).

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

Author: Thomas N. Bisson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 0691169764

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Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.

European Transformations
European Transformations

Author: Thomas F. X. Noble

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268036102

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Medievalists explore geographical regions and themes to expose the best current thinking about what was and what was not distinctive about the twelfth century.

Jews and Christians in Twelfth-century Europe
Jews and Christians in Twelfth-century Europe

Author: Michael Alan Signer

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Fifteen papers from a conference held at the University of Notre Dame in 1996 which explore the tensions that characterised the relationship between Jews and Christians across Europe during the 12th century. The movement of Jews into Slavic territories and into Anglo-Norman England also led to the creation of their own global language. Subjects include the Jewish Renaissance of the 12th century, changing perceptions of the Christian-Jewish conflict, conversion, expulsions, Christian and Jewish religious and secular texts, Jews in France and England.

The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century

Author: Charles Homer Haskins

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780674760752

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The European Middle Ages form a complex and varied as well as a very considerable period of human history. Within their thousand years of time they include a large variety of peoples, institutions, and types of culture, illustrating many processes of historical development and containing the origins of many phases of modern civilization. - p. [3].