The thirteenth century or ‘High Middle Ages’ saw a more learned and less superstitious Europe a radical change in technologies such as the first European paper mill in Italy and the developing Gothic architecture spread through Europe and was to remain a popular style until the 1500s producing a great number of Europe’s early castles and cathedrals. At the end of the century the remaining crusader states were evacuated. By the late thirteenth century Latin translations of most important classical texts were available to European scholars heightening the thirst for learning and the forming the foundations of Scholasticism.

Artist/ArtWork

Century	Country	Artist/ArtWork
1200	[BG] Bulgaria	Boyana Church
1200	[DE] Germany	Cathedral of Cologne, The Gargoyles
1200	[IT] Italy	Giovanni Pisano
1200	[UK] United Kingdom	Matthew Paris
1200	[PL] Poland	Trzebnica Church

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