HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Scholasticism, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ramon Llull
20 Nov 2020
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13th century art and intellect. the intellectual and artistic production of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries was the high point of medieval cultural life. the grand culmination of the twelfth century"s hectic energies. In virtually every artistic medium architecture, painting and sculpture, poetry, drama, music, and dance. Europe produced a nearly dizzying array of masterpieces. From the cathedrals at durham, chartres, cologne, venice, or barcelona through the poetry of chre tien de troyes bernat de ventadorn wolfram von eschenbach. Guido cavalcanti dante alighieri the anonymous author of sir gawain and the green knight to the dream-visions of hildegard of. Europe"s first novel an unencouraging debut work called blanquerna. Medieval music whether love-longing troubadour songs or liturgical motets grew in complexity and sophistication to include two- and three-part harmonies and new instruments. Intellectual life showed the same vitality and ambition.
