October 20, 2016

The 12th Century Renaissance

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49 minutes

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.

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October 20, 2016

The 12th Century Renaissance

Listen Later

49 minutes

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.

...more