Renaissance of the 12th century Archives

Women do not sit as Judges, or do they? The office of Judge in Vincentius Bellovacensis’ Speculum

November 10, 2014 By Medievalists.net

It was Charles Homer Haskins (1870-1936) who coined the expression “Renaissance of the twelfth century”. Before him this expression referred more specifically to the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth century as nineteenth century Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt put it.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Fifteenth Century, Haskins, Italian Reformation, Latin, Law, Medieval Women, Renaissance of the 12th century, Thirteenth century, Vincentius Bellovacensis (Vincent of Beauvais)

Notarial Convention in the Facilitation of Trade and Economics in Mid-Thirteenth Century Marseille

February 22, 2014 By Medievalists.net

This paper examines Marseillaise notarial documents of 1248 from the cartulary of Girauld Amalric. Amalric’s cartulary demonstrates how notarial techniques and related legal conventions facilitated Marseille’s long- and short-distance trade.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Administration, Banking, Commerce, Economics - Trade, Europe, France, Government, High Middle Ages, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Marseille, Merchants, Politics, Provence, Renaissance of the 12th century, Roman Empire, Social History, Thirteenth century, Twelfth Century, Urban Studies

From Triumphant to Suffering Jesus: Visual and Literary Depictions of the Crucifixion, 300-1200

January 4, 2014 By Medievalists.net

By the twelfth century in both literature and art the form of the suffering Christ was supplanting the form of the conquering Christ.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Art History, Christianity, Early Middle Ages, Fourth Century, Jewish, Literature, Renaissance of the 12th century, Theology, Thirteenth century, Twelfth Century

The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Books, Scriptoria and Libraries

August 15, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Medieval Books of Hours in the Public Library of Bruges

Scholars in Germany and elsewhere have studied individual instances of this growth in the output of scriptoria and expansion of collections, but no-one, as far as I know, has drawn attention to the impressive scale and character of the phenomenon as a whole.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Education, Eleventh Century, Germany, Libraries, Literature, Medieval Women, Paris, Renaissance of the 12th century, Twelfth Century

Bernard of Morlaix: the literature of complaint, the Latin tradition and the twelfth-century “Renaissance”

March 9, 2013 By Medievalists.net

Bernard of Morlaix was a monk of the order of Cluny who flourished around 1140. Excerpts from one of his poems appear in some anthologies of medieval Latin verse1 and he is briefly noticed in some works on the twelfth-century renaissance, but he has received little critical attention and only one of his poems has been translated from the Latin.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Bernard of Clairvaux, Christianity, Cluny, High Middle Ages, John of Salisbury, Language, Latin, Literature, Monasticism, Poetry, Religious Life, Renaissance of the 12th century, Twelfth Century

The Arthur of the chronicles

September 30, 2012 By Medievalists.net

Even if we cannot accept the claim made by Geoffrey in his introduction that his putative source was ‘attractively composed to form a consecutive andorderly narrative’, he certainly made extensive use ofWelsh genealogies andking-lists.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arthurian Legend, Celtic, Christianity, Empress Matilda, England, Estoire des Engleis: History of the English, France, Geoffrey Gaimar, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Henry I, High Middle Ages, Historiography, History of the Kings of Britain, King Stephen of Blois, Language, Latin, Old French, Renaissance of the 12th century, Roman de Brut, Twelfth Century, Wace, Wales

Bogomils, Cathars, Lollards, and the High Social Position of Women During the Middle Ages

June 24, 2012 By Medievalists.net

During the 12th century, if not slightly earlier, Western Europe lived through a period of economic and social upheavel termed by many historians the 12th c. Renaissance. One of its aspects is related to the considerable emancipation of women mostly in Southern France, a development which spread over to Italy, Flanders, and later, England. One can even detect social zones where real emancipation was axhieved.