JOHN D. COTTS is Associate Professor of History at Whitman College, USA.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013 'Well written and clearly argued, this excellent survey of the 12th century should be on every undergraduate medieval history reading list. Highly recommended.' - Choice 'An excellent introduction to one of the most fascinating periods of the European Middle Ages.' - Bjorn Weiler, Aberystwyth University, UK

• PrefaceMapIntroduction: Approaches to the Twelfth Century and its 'Renaissance'Varieties of Political Order in the Latin WestPeople, Economy and Social RelationsSpirituality and its DiscontentsIntellectual SynthesesThe Crusades and the Idea of ChristendomNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex.

JOHN D. COTTS is Associate Professor of History at Whitman College, USA.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013 'Well written and clearly argued, this excellent survey of the 12th century should be on every undergraduate medieval history reading list. Highly recommended.' - Choice 'An excellent introduction to one of the most fascinating periods of the European Middle Ages.' - Bjorn Weiler, Aberystwyth University, UK

• PrefaceMapIntroduction: Approaches to the Twelfth Century and its 'Renaissance'Varieties of Political Order in the Latin WestPeople, Economy and Social RelationsSpirituality and its DiscontentsIntellectual SynthesesThe Crusades and the Idea of ChristendomNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex.

JOHN D. COTTS is Associate Professor of History at Whitman College, USA.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013 'Well written and clearly argued, this excellent survey of the 12th century should be on every undergraduate medieval history reading list. Highly recommended.' - Choice 'An excellent introduction to one of the most fascinating periods of the European Middle Ages.' - Bjorn Weiler, Aberystwyth University, UK

• PrefaceMapIntroduction: Approaches to the Twelfth Century and its 'Renaissance'Varieties of Political Order in the Latin WestPeople, Economy and Social RelationsSpirituality and its DiscontentsIntellectual SynthesesThe Crusades and the Idea of ChristendomNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex.