Headlines in history the 1100s

Divided into geographical areas, this book explores the challenges civilizations faced in the 1100s, focusing on Europe's agricultural and technological advances, the rise of China as a sea power, and the rise of new civilizations in the desert regions of the Americas.

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Other Authors: Cothran, Helen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego, CA Greenhaven press 2001
Series:Headlines in history
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 |a 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. 
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