Medieval Popular Culture (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Series Number 14) - Softcover

Gurevich, Aron

 
9780521386586: Medieval Popular Culture (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Series Number 14)

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By scrutinizing the lives of saints, miracle stories, descriptions of fantastic travels, penitential literature, catechisms and similar genres, from the fifth to the 15th centuries, the author attempts to reconstruct the beliefs and perceptions of ordinary men and women in medieval times.

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"Here Western readers are confronted with one of the great minds of medieval cultural history, grappling with fundamental issues of history in a provocative, timely, and demanding manner. Exciting, exasperating, and enlightening, it is a volume no medievalist can ignore." Patrick G. Geary, The Historian

Synopsis

By scrutinizing the lives of saints, miracle stories, descriptions of fantastic travels, penitential literature, catechisms and similar genres, from the fifth to the 15th centuries, the author attempts to reconstruct the beliefs and perceptions of ordinary men and women in medieval times.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988
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