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In Our Time: The 12th Century Renaissance

The 12th Century Renaissance

20/10/2016

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The 12th Century Renaissance

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a period of great change in western Europe.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins and impact of the philosophical, scientific, religious and architectural changes of the 12th century in western Europe.

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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