HST3194   A twelfth-century Renaissance?   (20 credits)

Description

From the birth of the universities and the appearance of an administrative class to the introduction of new forms of art and literature, the long twelfth century transformed European intellectual thought and consequently law, government, and religion. This module uses sources written by contemporaries ¿ from legal tracts to love letters, and from the philosophical musings of university masters to the satirical ballads written by their students to investigate that transformation. It will explore the `twelfth-century renaissance¿ imagined by scholars, focussing on how men and women at the time provoked, reacted to, and understood the changes in law, thought, and culture.

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