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And it was a perfect time to come into this colossal inheritance. For the mid12th century really was the springtime of the Middle Ages. Literacy and learning were spreading from the cathedral schools in Paris and Canterbury. Monasteries were being founded at a record pace, and although they were supposed to be purged of worldliness, before long they were the engines of economic power, producers of wool, masters of the mills and rivers. So if this was indeed springtime, Henry and Eleanor had just got themselves the fattest and the ripest fruit. Still, it' s unlikely they ever thought of it as a true empire in the Roman sense of a single realm. Its many regions were all treated separately, according to their customs. And while Westminster was increasingly at the heart of administration, Rouen in Normandy, Chinon in Anjou and Poitiers in Aquitaine were just as important. |
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jì chéng rú cǐ páng dà de cái fù, rèn shuí dōu huì huān xīn xǐ yuè, ér shí èr shì jì zhōng yè què shí shì zhōng shì jì de chūn tiān, wén huà de fēng cháo shǐ yú bā lí, jí kǎn tè bó léi de jiào táng xué xiào, xùn sù xí juǎn kāi lái, xiū dào yuàn rú yǔ hòu chūn sǔn bān jiàn lì qǐ lái. jǐn guǎn tā men yīng gāi shì yuǎn lí shì sú de qīng jìng zhī dì, ér zài hěn jiǔ yǐ qián, tā men què shì guó jiā jīng jì de dài dòng zhě. yáng máo de shēng chǎn zhě, mò fáng yǔ hé liú de suǒ yǒu zhě. zài nà gè chūn guāng míng mèi de shí dài, hēng lì hé āi lì nuò gāng gāng zhāi dé le zuì wéi chéng shú bǎo mǎn de guǒ shí. tā men bìng méi yǒu rú tóng luó mǎ tǒng zhì zhě nà yàng, shì qí wèi jué duì tǒng yī de dì guó, gēn jù gè dì de xí sú, hěn duō dì fāng yě shòu dào qū bié duì dài, dāng wēi sī mǐn sī tè zhú jiàn dì chéng wéi quán lì jī gòu de zhōng xīn. nuò màn dǐ de lǔ áng, ān rú de xī nóng, ā jī tǎn de pǔ wǎ jié yě hái shì tóng yàng zhòng yào. |