El renacimiento del siglo XII

Charles Homer Haskins was one of the great medievalists of his generation. He was a professor of history at Harvard and became famous for his ability to expose his knowledge in an attractive way to the general public, a talent that is evidenced in The Twelfth Century Renaissance, his best work, in which he demonstrated that the Renaissance was not a sudden phenomenon, but a movement that begins in the twelfth century and that is based on many other "cultural waves". He was the first to launch the idea of ??a creative and vibrant Middle Ages. Since the rise of knowledge, promoted by kings such as Henry II of England and patrons of letters such as Eleanor of Aquitaine or her daughter, María de Champagne; passing through a greater knowledge of Latin literature, courtly love, the rediscovery of science (thanks to the work of the translators of the Toledo school, and of the Sicilian court), until the appearance of the first universities, the Modern cities and Gothic, Haskins invites the reader to immerse themselves in a twelfth century full of contrasts, the origin of modern Europe and the Italian Renaissance. The 12th century renaissance is, in short, an entertaining text as full of life as the time it describes, and one that both the scholar and the non-specialized reader will enjoy.