The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Paperback)

Charles Homer Haskins; Jim Haskins
Harvard University Press
9780674760752
0-674-76075-1

The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century which saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of the.

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Gothic; the emergence of vernacular languages; the revival of Latin classics, poetry, and Roman law; the recovery of Greek Science and much Greek philosophy; the origins of universities, towns, and the sovereign state.