The 12th Century Renaissance

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.

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Guests

• Laura Ashe 10 episodes
  Associate Professor of English at Worcester College, University of Oxford
• Elisabeth van Houts 2 episodes
  Honorary Professor of European Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
• Giles Gasper No other episodes
  Reader in Medieval History at Durham University

Reading list

• The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  Peter Abelard (trans. Betty Radice) (Penguin Classics, 2003) Google Books →
• Conquest and Transformation: The Oxford English Literary History vol. 1: 1000-1350
  Laura Ashe (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2017) Google Books →
• Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century
  Robert L. Benson and Giles Constable (eds.) (Clarendon Press, 1982) Google Books →
• Europe in the High Middle Ages
  William Chester Jordan (Penguin Press, 2011) Google Books →
• Women of the Twelfth Century
  Georges Duby (Polity Press, 1998) Google Books →
• The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts
  Edward Grant (Cambridge University Press, 1997) Google Books →
• The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
  Fiona Griffiths (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) Google Books →
• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
  James Hannam (Icon Books Ltd, 2010) Google Books →
• The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe 950-1200
  C. Stephen Jaeger (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000) Google Books →
• The Discovery of the Individual, 1050-1200
  Colin Morris (University of Toronto Press, 1987) Google Books →
• European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century
  Thomas F. X. Noble and John van Engen (eds.) (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013) Google Books →
• The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
  Robert Swanson (Manchester University Press, 1999) Google Books →

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