Averroes (In Our Time)
1170 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the philosopher Averroes who worked to reconcile the theology of Islam with the rationality of Aristotle achieving fame and infamy in equal measure In The Divine Comedy Dante subjected all the sinners in Christendom to a series of grisly punishments, from being buried alive to being frozen in ice. The deeper you go the more br
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Around 1170
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Mongol Conquests (1206)
- Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan (1206)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Delhi Sultanate (1206)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Sack of Constantinople by Fourth Crusade (1204)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)