The 12th Century Renaissance (In Our Time)
1100 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the changes in the intellectual world of Western Europe in the 12th Century, and their origins. This was a time of Crusades, the formation of states, the start of Gothic architecture, a reconnection with Roman and Greek learning and their Arabic development and the start of the European universities, and has become known as Th
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Around 1100
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- First Crusade (1096)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Crusades (1095)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Battle of Manzikert (1071)