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Structures and origins of the twelfth-century "Renaissance" by Peter Dinzelbacher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dinzelbacher, Peter, author.
- Series:
- Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 63.
- Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 0026-9832 ; Band 63
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval--12th century.
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Europe.
- Intellectual life.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Social history.
- Social history--Medieval.
- Middle Ages--Historiography.
- Middle Ages.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 343 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Anton Hiersemann, 2017.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Varieties of mutation during the high middle ages
- Expansion
- Spatial expansion
- Temporal expansion
- Antiquity
- Future
- Religious expansion
- Religious aggressivity
- Differentiation
- The holy and the profane
- Social transformations
- Lay-folk becoming visible
- Women becoming visible
- Children becoming visible
- Diversity in religious life
- Romanesque and gothic architecture
- Music
- Further examples of diversification
- Rationalization
- Theology and philosophy
- Law and polities
- Intellectual management
- Ingenium
- Abstraction
- Realistic observation
- Desacralization
- Death
- Nature, fortune and fate
- Psychologicalization
- Discovering the self
- Doubt and inner conflict
- Ethics
- Love emotions
- Men and women
- Mysticism
- Compassion
- Friendship
- Summary
- Contemporaries reacting
- Rethinking the problems of approach and interpretation
- Some methodical considerations on the quest for historical reasons
- Causal explanations
- The investiture struggle
- General theories of cultural development and their adaptation to the high middle ages
- The 'materialistic' point of view
- The sociological point of view
- The psychohistorical point of view
- External cultural influences
- Conclusion
- Excursus : the court as a centre for the transfer of mental attitudes
- Postscript
- A very short note on the history of scholarship
- And a final note, viz. on this book's language
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index to ancient and medieval names and to anonymous texts
- Index to authors of secondary works.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-319) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9783777217048
- 3777217042
- OCLC:
- 982490974
- Publisher Number:
- 9783777217048
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