At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000 (review)
Peregrine Horden
The transformations evident in almost every aspect of life western—especially northwestern—Europe between ca. 1000 and 1250 were more profound than anything that happened during the preceding or subsequent centuries. Europe we know today was fundamentally configured, not Carolingian age, Renaissance Reformation, but course "long twelfth century": demographic, economic, social, religious, cultural, political terms, century set stage for "European miracle." In one form another this story has, recent decades, been told by a distinguished array [End Page 805] historians: Jacques Le Goff, Robert Bartlett, late R. W. Southern, and, as lately 2000, I. Moore, whose trenchant interpretive monograph on period is tellingly entitled First European Revolution.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine