| Description |
304 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Headlines in history (San Diego, Calif.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Rise of papacy : Rise of the papacy, an overview -- St. Bernard and the rise of Cistercian monasticism -- Bernard's sermon on humility -- Frederick I Barbarossa : power over the papacy -- Becket controversy -- Henry II : conflict with the church -- Crusades : Holy Crusades -- Crusading knights : Knights Templar and Hospitaler -- Islamic reaction to the Crusades -- Crusaders through the eyes of a Muslim -- Chivalry and courtly love : Feudalism and knightly ethics -- World of knights : fact and fiction -- Chretien de Troyes and courtly love -- Lancelot and Guinevere -- Influence of the troubadours -- Songs of a troubadour -- Romantic legend : Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Twelfth-century renaissance -- Overview : twelfth-century renaissance -- Rise of universities -- Conflicting philosophies : humanism and scholasticism -- Abelard the intellectual -- Letters of Abelard and Heloise -- John of Salisbury and Christian humanism -- In defense of eloquence -- Human intellect is limited -- Vertical cathedrals : rise of gothic architecture -- Asia : Rise of China as a sea power -- Confucianism in twelfth-century China -- Chinese rituals in the twelfth century -- Samurai code of honor -- Example of Japanese storytelling -- Development of the Kamakura government -- Rise of Genghis Khan -- Temujin slays his brother -- Americas : Talking pottery : the Chimu Indians of Peru -- Demise of the Toltecs -- Rise and fall of the Anasazi Indians. |
| Subject |
Twelfth century.
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Civilization, Medieval -- 12th century.
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Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
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Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492.
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Chivalry -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Indians -- History.
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China -- Civilization -- 960-1644.
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| Added Author |
Cothran, Helen.
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| Added Title |
Eleven hundreds |
| ISBN |
0737705299 (pbk.) |
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0737705302 (lib.) |
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0737705272 (pbk.) |
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0737705280 (lib.) |
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