twelfth-century

Henry’s reign sparked what’s been called the twelfth-century Renaissance.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Henry’s reign sparked what’s been called the twelfth-century Renaissance.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Long before they arrived in America, the Irish were known as “a filthy people, wallowing in vice,” as a twelfth-century English writer put it.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Peter Riga, a twelfth-century versifier of the Bible, wrote:

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Guibert of Nogent, a French twelfth-century Benedictine historian who wrote a history of the First Crusade 1095–99, recounted in his memoirs how the notion to attack Jews surfaced, and indicated its consequences.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Nearly a year later, on June 21, 1980, they wed at the twelfth-century Church of St. James the Less in Buckinghamshire.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Nearly a year later, on June 21, 1980, they wed at the twelfth-century Church of St. James the Less in Buckinghamshire.

William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

Guibert of Nogent, a French twelfth-century Benedictine historian who wrote a history of the First Crusade 1095–99, recounted in his memoirs how the notion to attack Jews surfaced, and indicated its consequences.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Bertran de Born, the twelfth-century Provençal poet, carrying his severed head by the hair as it sways back and forth like a lantern — surely one of the most grotesque images in that book-length catalogue of hallucinations and torments.

Excerpt: Invisible by Paul Auster 2009

Peter Riga, a twelfth-century versifier of the Bible, wrote:

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011