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 anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (un autre moyen âge), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalité from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.

Time, work & culture in the Middle Ages

Politics & Social Sciences

Jacques Le Goff

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

In The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory did not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, that the word purgatorium did not exist until then. He shows that the growth of a belief in an intermediate place between Heaven and Hell was closely bound up with profound changes in the social and intellectual reality of the Middle Ages. Throughout, Le Goff makes use of a wealth of archival material, much of which he has translated for the first time, inviting readers to examine evidence from the writings of great, obscure, or anonymous theologians.

The Birth of Purgatory

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Medieval Civilization: 400-1500 A.D. ( Le Goff)

History

Blackwell*publishers

Offers 10 profiles written by 10 of today s leading medievalists: monks, the warrior &amp; the knight, the peasant &amp; agriculture, the city-dweller &amp; life in cities &amp; towns, the intellectual, the artist, the merchant, women &amp; the family, the saint, &amp; the marginal man. Opens a delightful window into the past &amp; will be essential reading for students of the medieval period &amp; for those fascinated by the Middle Ages. Suggested readings &amp; bibliography conclude each profile.

The Medieval World: The History of European Society (Italian Edition)

World

Parkgate Books

Mediaeval World (The History of European Society) Paperback - Import, October 24, 1991

Mediaeval World (The History of European Society)

Europe

COLLINS BROWN

Offers 10 profiles written by 10 of todays leading monks, the warrior & the knight, the peasant & agriculture, the city-dweller & life in cities & towns, the intellectual, the artist, the merchant, women & the family, the saint, & the marginal man. Opens a delightful window into the past & will be essential reading for students of the medieval period & for those fascinated by the Middle Ages. Suggested readings & bibliography conclude each profile.

The Medieval World

Bracken Books

Histoire religieuse de la Pologne (Chrétiens dans lhistoire)

Le Centurion

La Civilisation de L'Occident Medieval (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

ARTHAUD

Die Geburt Europas im Mittelalter.

C.H.Beck

Wucherzins und Höllenqualen: Ã–konomie und Religion im Mittelalter

Klett-Cotta

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