Medieval Civilization - Brossura

Le Goff, Jacques

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0631175660 ISBN 13: 9780631175667

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 1991

Riassunto

This one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe.

Part one, Historical Evolution , is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Part two, Medieval Civilization , is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power characteristic of Anglo-Saxon scholarship with the sensitivity and insight of the French historical tradition.

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Recensione:

′Jacques Le Goff is one of the most distinguised of the Frenchmedieval historians of his generation, a generation in which theFrench have consistently set the pace for medieval studies.′ Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books

"The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff′swork cannot be summarized and demands to be experienced." TimesLiterary Supplement

′...Stimulating and impressive. It was high time that it shouldbe translated into English′ Douglas Johnson, TheObserver

"Covering 1000 years of civilazation in Western Europe andillustrated with a wide range of magnificant photographs, thispopular and well–established French classic will both delight andinform." Publsihing News

"Combines illuminating generalizations with appealing nuggets offact." Jasper Griffin

A rich portrait of the medieval world which historians willadmire and any general reader can read with enjoyment." TheIndependent

"Le Goff has taken the whole of Western Europe as a temporalsequence and he has asked what are the conceptual schemes whichgive it coherence. It is the structuralist scheme which makes thisbook stimulating and impressive. It was high time that it should betranslated into English." The Observer

L'autore:

Jacques Le Goff was born in 1924 at Toulon. He taught in a lycee at Amiens in 1950-1 and then held research studentships at Lincoln College, Oxford and the Ecole francaise de Rome. Since then he has taught at the Ecole practique des hautes etudes, rising to the position of president of the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales 1975-7. He is director of the prestigious journal Annales. He has published many books; best known to English readers are Pour un autre Moyen Age (Paris 1977), translated as Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages (Chicago, 1980) and La naisssance du purgatoire (Paris 1981), translated as The Borth of Purgatory (Chicago 1984).

Julia Barrow, a medievalist with a special interest in church history, took her MA in St Andrews in 1978 and her D.Phil in Oxford in 1983. At present she holds a British Academy Post-doctoral fellowship at Birmingham University.

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• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631175660
• ISBN 13: 9780631175667
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448