Peter Dinzelbacher (Book order)

Peter Dinzelbacher Book order

January 1, 1948

Peter Dinzelbacher is a professor whose research focuses on the history of religiosity, folk culture, and mentality. His work delves into the profound aspects of the European Middle Ages and Late Antiquity, examining how spiritual and social attitudes were formed and expressed during these periods. Dinzelbacher analyzes the key elements of European thought and experience, offering readers an engaging insight into the past.

Structures and origins of the twelfth-century "renaissance"

343 pages
13 hours of reading

Considering the many seminal innovations that took place in the Central Middle Ages, this epoch can be regarded as an ?axis time? of European history. Previous scholarship has so far mostly focused on descriptions of what appeared to be new within the diverse areas of material and spiritual life. The present book, by contrast, analyzes the structural foundations of those innovations from the standpoint of the history of mentality, identifying general categories such as differentiation, psychologization, rationalization, and desacralization. The numerous changes in the thought patterns, the emotional set-ups, the aesthetics, and in the behavior of the medieval elite demonstrate more similarities to the main features characteristic of modern times than to those typical of the second half of the first millennium.