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Jacques Le Goff
In this outstanding and celebrated biography, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a fascinating picture of the life of Francis of Assisi. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new…
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A history of the fabled heroes and miracles of the Middle Ages.
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The largest specialist in the history of the Middle Ages, Zhak Le Goff considers the medieval West set their parameters of space-time, material culture and social hierarchy. Author reveals how…
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Translation of: La naissance du purgatoire.
These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groups–the callings-of the Middle Ages. The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and…
[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territorially, but in that other precious element of history…
This is the first accessible discussion of the role of money in the life and economy of the Middle Ages. The author pays particular attention to the way in which…
Interviews detailing the work of eminent medievalist Jacques Le Goff.
Essays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work of Jacques Le Goff.
Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214-1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century. He ruled when France was at the height…
A history of medieval civilization from 400 to 1500. The first part is a narrative account of the period, from barbarian settlement of Roman Europe to the wars of the…
Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and…
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To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church…
Jacques Le Goff argues that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to…
Discusses medieval economic thought, centering on the belief that usury was immoral and unnatural.
It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints’ lives. Assembled for clerical use in…
Eithne Massey
This beautiful book visits twenty-eight richly atmospheric sites and tells the mythological stories associated with them. Illustrated with evocative photographs and older etchings and prints, it draws the reader back…
This book presents a selection of ten of the most significant contributions of essays to Faire de l'histoire, a major three-volume exposition of French historiography first published in 1974. These…
Jacques Legoff,etc.
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian’s craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral…
Jacques Le Goff,Jean-Maurice de Montremy
In this fascinating book, which takes the form of a series of edited interviews with noted journalist Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Jacques Le Goff offers us a synthesis of his work…
Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz
Es werden die unterschiedlichen Forschungskonzeptionen zweier Historiker analysiert und gegenubergestellt. J. Le Goff und A.J. Gurjewitsch verstehen die Anthropologie als Basis eines neuen generalisierenden Syntheseversuchs historischer Betrachtung und gewinnen eigenstandige…
Professor Jacques Le Goff (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales Paris)
Synthese inedite dans l'oeuvre de Jacques Le Goff, fruit de plus de quarante annees de frequentation quotidienne de l'art medieval et de ses images, cet ouvrage se propose de restituer…
