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The Renaissance of Learning in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

The Renaissance of Learning in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Ford, William

Paperback

PhilosophyMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN13: 9798235991705
Publisher: Colloquium Verlag
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The story of the eleventh and twelfth centuries is, at its heart, a story of rebirth. It is a rebirth not in the sense later attached to the secular Renaissance of the fifteenth century, but a rebirth rooted in the life of the Church, nourished by the sacraments, shaped by monastic discipline, and animated by a profound desire to understand God and His creation more deeply. To speak of a Renaissance of Learning in this period is to speak of a Catholic renaissance, a renewal that flowed from the altar, the cloister, and the cathedral school. It is to recognize that the intellectual flourishing of medieval Europe did not arise in spite of the Church but because of her. The centuries that modern textbooks once dismissed as dark were in fact the seedbed of the West's intellectual tradition, and the light that dawned in the eleventh and twelfth centuries was a light kindled by faith.

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