European Transformations by Thomas Noble PAPERBACK 9780268036102

University of Notre Dame Press

European TransformationsThe Long Twelfth Century\nAuthor(s): Thomas Noble, John Van Engen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268036102, 978-0268036102\nSynopsis\nThe \""long twelfth century\""1050 to 1215embraces one of the transformative moments in European history: the point, for some, at which Europe first truly became \""Europe.\"" Historians have used the terms \""renaissance,\""\""reformation,\""and \""revolution\"" to account for the dynamism of intellectual, religious, and structural renewal manifest across schools, monasteries, courts, and churches. Complicating the story, more recent historical work has highlighted manifestations of social crisis and oppression. In European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, nineteen accomplished medievalists examine this pivotal era under the rubric of \""transformation\"": a time of epoch-making change both good and ill, a release of social and cu.