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... thirteenth century . If the leitmotif of twelfth - century thought was creativity and originality , that of the earlier and mid - thirteenth century was order and discipline . As the Gothic cathedral combined all the artistic and ...
... thirteenth century . If the leitmotif of twelfth - century thought was creativity and originality , that of the earlier and mid - thirteenth century was order and discipline . As the Gothic cathedral combined all the artistic and ...
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... century . At least three members of the thirteenth - century French nobility were highly literate and sophisticated men . William de Lorris wrote the first half of the Romance of the Rose , a sort of encyclopedia of romantic allegory ...
... century . At least three members of the thirteenth - century French nobility were highly literate and sophisticated men . William de Lorris wrote the first half of the Romance of the Rose , a sort of encyclopedia of romantic allegory ...
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The Life and Death of a Civilization Norman F. Cantor. centuries had proved futile . His poem heralds the frustration , bitterness , anger , and dismay of the late thirteenth century . The men of the new generation of the later thirteenth ...
The Life and Death of a Civilization Norman F. Cantor. centuries had proved futile . His poem heralds the frustration , bitterness , anger , and dismay of the late thirteenth century . The men of the new generation of the later thirteenth ...
Contents
Introduction THE SCOPE OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY I | 1 |
PART ONE THE ROMAN DESTINY | 15 |
Chapter Two THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE AND | 31 |
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