
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


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
Elisabeth van Houts
and
Giles Gasper
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
By BBC Radio 44.5
18311,831 ratings
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
Elisabeth van Houts
and
Giles Gasper
Producer: Simon Tillotson.

7,709 Listeners

1,094 Listeners

1,066 Listeners

5,472 Listeners

1,805 Listeners

3,232 Listeners

868 Listeners

608 Listeners

735 Listeners

592 Listeners

283 Listeners

1,774 Listeners

1,056 Listeners

2,081 Listeners

477 Listeners

4,777 Listeners

3,221 Listeners

3,311 Listeners

1,038 Listeners

15,634 Listeners

1,890 Listeners

2,059 Listeners

2,470 Listeners