Author:
Cotts, John D.
ImprintHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Descriptionxi, 244 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Note:Introduction: Approaches to the Twelfth Century and Its 'Renaissance' -- 1. Varieties of Political Order in the Latin West : The German Empire, the Papacy, and Northern Italy ; Multicultural Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World: Sicily and Iberia ; Competing Monarchies in France and England ; Christianization and the Kingdoms of Northern and Eastern Europe -- 2. People, Economy, and Social Relations : Population ; Peasants, Lords, and Patterns of Settlement ; Towns and Cities ; Trade, Commerce, and Economic Growth -- 3. Spirituality and Its Discontents : Patterns of Religious Experience ; The Church and Its Religious Orders ; Heretics and Friars in the Urban Context ; Order, Exclusion, and the Fourth Lateran Council -- 4. Intellectual Syntheses : The Intellectual World: Contexts, Institutions, and Personnel ; Varieties of Latin Culture ; The Uses of Vernacular Literature -- 5. The Crusades and the Idea of Christendom : The Conception and Meaning of the Crusades ; Popular Piety and the First Crusade ; The Crusader States and the Crusading Movement to 1229 ; The Travails of the Crusading Ideal ; Christendom and the Wider World ; Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-233) and index.
