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Medieval Civilization 400-1500
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 Europ...more
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
August 26th 1991
by Wiley-Blackwell
(first published 1964)
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Originally published on my blog here in January 1999.
Medieval Civilization is an examination of the Middle Ages as a culture, an attempt to get into the minds of men and women quite alien to modern thought patters yet from whom modern culture derives.
Available for many years in France before being translated into English (at which point some revision was made), le Goff's work fits very much into the style of French historical writing whose best known exponent was Fernand Braudel. The earlier per...more
Medieval Civilization is an examination of the Middle Ages as a culture, an attempt to get into the minds of men and women quite alien to modern thought patters yet from whom modern culture derives.
Available for many years in France before being translated into English (at which point some revision was made), le Goff's work fits very much into the style of French historical writing whose best known exponent was Fernand Braudel. The earlier per...more
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...more
Part one, Historical Evolution, is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe...more
I had to read this book for my Medieval Ages class in College. It is a very interesting book and the author aproaches the subject in a very interesting way.
However, I did find a bit complicated to keep track of his thoughts throughout the book, he kind of loses himself at some point.
To be honest, there are more light reading if you want something easy about Medieval Civilization, BUT I would be lying if I told you this is a bad book. It isn't, it is an excelent book, specially if you are in Co...more
However, I did find a bit complicated to keep track of his thoughts throughout the book, he kind of loses himself at some point.
To be honest, there are more light reading if you want something easy about Medieval Civilization, BUT I would be lying if I told you this is a bad book. It isn't, it is an excelent book, specially if you are in Co...more
Well, I finally finished this book. It was good overall, although some parts were better and more interesting than others. It bordered on being an academic writing (or so it seemed), so some sections were a tad dry and a decent amount just went over my head even when I was concentrating. There is a ton of information in this book though, so I'm sure it's one that I will pick up again in the future to see if any of it makes more sense to me (right now, a lot of the names and dates mentioned don't...more
Open University's Cultural History course book
The early chapters were a nightmare because of all the lists of barbarian attacks. It just got me all dizzy and I wished he would have just told about the ones that were of great signifigance to medieval culture. Also, some of the foreign language phrases weren't even translated. Not all bad but it came across as a bit too heavy for me.
The early chapters were a nightmare because of all the lists of barbarian attacks. It just got me all dizzy and I wished he would have just told about the ones that were of great signifigance to medieval culture. Also, some of the foreign language phrases weren't even translated. Not all bad but it came across as a bit too heavy for me.
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A prolific medievalist of international renown, Le Goff is sometimes considered the principal heir and continuator of the movement known as Annales School (École des Annales), founded by his intellectual mentor Marc Bloch. Le Goff succeeded Fernand Braudel in 1972 at the head of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and was succeeded by François Furet in 1977. Along with Pierre...more
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