My quest for the Middle Ages
Jacques Le Goff
Bok · Engelsk · 2003
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| Utgitt | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2003
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| Omfang | IX, 133 s.
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| Opplysninger | Based on a series of conversations between Jacques Le Goff and Jean-Maurice de Montremy.. - 1. Becoming a medievalist -- The Middle Ages -- darkness or light : commonplaces -- A revolution : the book : a problem : sources -- 2. A long Middle Ages -- The idea of 'renaissance' -- A millennium and its division into periods -- 1215 : the Fourth Great Lateran Council -- 3. Merchants, bankers and intellectuals -- The invention of the economy -- Another space : thought -- Francis of Assisi : Mendicants in town -- 4. A civilisation takes shape -- Heaven comes down to earth -- Hell, purgatory, paradise -- Europe or the West? -- Feudalism -- The prestige of the law -- 5. On earth as in heaven -- Medieval humanism -- Heretics, Jews, outsiders... -- Angels and demons -- Mary the protectress : dying 'in the faith' -- 6. Epilogue -- Bibliography of Jacques Le Goff's work.. - 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. In the course of these conversations he explains how he came to write his books and how an overall view of the civilisation of the Middle Ages gradually emerged; a civilisation which shaped ‘western’ culture both for better and for worse. Each conversation touches upon one of the major themes of his work and the book as a whole presents the reader with a fascinating attempt to recover, define, and understand the Middle Ages.
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| ISBN | 0748620842. - 9780748620845
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