page_title: 11th century
section_title: Significant people
hierarchical_section_title: 11th century / Significant people
caption_attribution_description: Español: Miniatura que representa al rey Alfonso VI de León (1047-1109). Forma parte del Tumbo A de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela.
context_page_description: The 11th century is the period from 1001 to 1100 in accordance with the Julian calendar, and the 1st century of the 2nd millennium.
  In the history of Europe, this period is considered the early part of the High Middle Ages.
  There was, after a brief ascendancy, a sudden decline of Byzantine power and rise of Norman domination over much of Europe, along with the prominent role in Europe of notably influential popes. Christendom experienced a formal schism in this century which had been developing over previous centuries between the Roman West and Byzantine East, causing a split in its two largest denominations to this day: Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
  In Northern Italy, a growth of population in urban centers gave rise to early organized capitalism and more sophisticated, commercialized culture by the late 11th century. In East Europe, there was the golden age for the principality of Kievan Rus.
  In Song dynasty China and the classical Islamic world, this century marked the high point for both classical Chinese civilization, science and technology, and classical Islamic science, philosophy, technology and literature.
caption: Alfonso VI of Castile
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