The 12th Century Renaissance
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.
In Our Time · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the changes in the intellectual world of Western Europe in the 12th Century, and their origins. This was a time of Crusades, the formation of states, the start of Gothic architecture, a reconnection with Roman and Greek learning and their Arabic development and the start of the European universities, and has become known as The 12th Century Renaissance.
The image above is part of Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, Chartres Cathedral, from 1180.
With
Laura Ashe Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, University of Oxford
Elisabeth van Houts Honorary Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
and
Giles Gasper Reader in Medieval History at Durham University
Producer: Simon Tillotson.