The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Haskins, Charles Homer
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	01/01/1971
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Italian Renaissance was preceded, structured, and, to a significant extent, determined by the Renaissance of the twelfth century which saw the culmination of Romanesque art and the beginnings of the Gothic; the emergence of vernacular languages; the revival of Latin classics, poetry, and Roman law; the recovery of Greek Science and much Greek philosophy; the origins of universities, towns, and the sovereign state.