Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages - Softcover

Le Goff, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226470814 ISBN 13: 9780226470818

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1982

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jacques Le Goff(1927-2014) was a prominent French historian andmedievalist. He wasa key proponent of theAnnales school of historical analysis, which emphasizes longterm social history over political or military themes. He argued that the Middle Ages were a distinct form ofcivilization, substantively different from both the classsical and modern worlds.

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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, Dumezil, and Levi-Strauss. In building his argument for 'another Middle Ages', Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalite from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226470814
• ISBN 13: 9780226470818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400