Europe's Long Twelfth Century

2012-11-09
Europe's Long Twelfth Century
Author: John Cotts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 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.

European Transformations

2012
European Transformations
Author: Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 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.

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century

2015-09-22
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Author: Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400874319
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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.

The European Book in the Twelfth Century

2018-07-26
The European Book in the Twelfth Century
Author: Erik Kwakkel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 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.

Jews and Christians in Twelfth-century Europe

2001
Jews and Christians in Twelfth-century Europe
Author: Michael Alan Signer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:
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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.

Cultures of Power

2013-04-19
Cultures of Power
Author: Thomas N. Bisson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2013-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812200764
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The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.

Central Europe in the High Middle Ages

2013-12-19
Central Europe in the High Middle Ages
Author: Nora Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 549
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521781566
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A groundbreaking comparative history of the formation of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland, from their origins in the eleventh century.

Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe

2000-11-20
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe
Author: Stephen C. McCluskey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000-11-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521778527
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This book provides an overview of the astronomical practices that continued through the so-called "Dark Ages." Like the astronomies of traditional societies, early medieval astronomies established a religious framework of sacred time and ritual calender; here Christian feasts tied to a pre-Christian ritual solar calender, the date of Easter tied to the Hebrew lunar calender; and the timing of monastic prayers in terms of the course of the stars. Coupled with the remnants of ancient geometrical astronomy, these provided the framework for the rebirth of astronomy with the rise of the medieval universities.