num_pages: 437
description: [The 12th century in Europe] was in many respects an age of fresh and vigorous life. The epoch of the Crusades, of the rise of towns, and of the earliest bureaucratic states of the West, it saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of Gothic; the emergence of the vernacular literatures; the revival of the Latin classics and of Latin poetry and Roman law; the recovery of Greek science, with its Arabic additions, and of much of Greek philosophy; and the origin of the first European universities. The twelfth century left its signature on higher education, on the scholastic philosophy, on European systems of law, on architecture and sculpture, on the liturgical drama, on Latin and vernacular poetry...
language: English
title: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
titlecomplete: The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century
genres: Academic, Historical, European History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, Religion, Medieval History, Medieval
ratings_count: 122
publisher: Harvard University Press