Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World (0) - Hardcover

Kleinschmidt, Harald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 085115770X ISBN 13: 9780851157702

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2000

Synopsis

Kleinschmidt approaches the western European middle ages as a modern anthropologist would approach analysis of a remote culture. His objectives have something in common with Le Goff, as he seeks to identify with medieval society and culture without the encumbrance of later historical attitudes.
This radical study traces the transformation of ideas in western Europe during more than one thousand years between the fifth and sixteenth centuries. Its central concern is to interpret and understand changing attitudes towards time, space, the human body, human and social relationships, productivity and distribution, travel, modes of thought, attitudes to the past, age versus youth, war, faith, and social and political order.
Illustrations and narrative work together in this book to present medieval culture as one shaped by the spoken word and the visual image. Drawing extensively from a wide range of primary source material, the breadth and originality of Kleinschmidt's study will have an important influence on scholarly perception of the middle ages, as a period of continual change and continually changing attitudes. HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT teaches in the College of International Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

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About the Author

Professor Harald Kleinschmidt is Professor of the History of International Relations and Dean of the Doctoral Program in the International Political Economy at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Japan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 085115770X
• ISBN 13: 9780851157702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 422