Structures and Origins of the Twelfth-Century "Renaissance"
Stuttgart, Germany: Anton Hiersemann (
2017)
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Abstract
Many lofty and grandiose claims have been made for the twelfth century and its renaissance, but it is hard to imagine ones loftier or more grandiose than those advanced here. Peter Dinzelbacher views the period as distinct not for its proliferation of texts nor the restructuring of social orders, for these are merely the surface features of a far more profound phenomenon: a fundamental shift in the scheme of human emotional relations between c.1050 and c.1250.