Renaissance, Humanism, and the Interpretation of the Twelfth CenturyThe Twelfth Century Renaissance. Christopher BrookeTwelfth-Century Europe: An Interpretive Essay. Sidney R. PackardThe Discovery of the Individual, 1050-1200. Colin MorrisLove in Twelfth Century France. John C. Moore
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The temptation to characterize centuries under handy rubrics is not peculiar historians of any age. Nonetheless, there are times when the yielding seems decidedly more prevalent than resisting. Renaissance Twelfth Century by Charles Homer Haskins, first published in 1927, a good example genre surprisingly popular early twentieth century that has continued maintain its vitality down present (a paperback edition work still print). Aside from popularity, one might well ask how much difference between Haskins's book and now unread James J. Walsh, Thirteenth, Greatest Centuries (1907). similarities striking, only naively optimistic attitude each author took toward his subject, but also method employed, endless accumulation every seemingly relevant detail. course, was Harvard professor, dean American medievalists, man who wrote several far better books (notably Studies History Medieval Science), while Walsh Catholic publicist reduced academic standing whose deficiencies all too evident most noted book. And then
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