Medieval Callings - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226470865 ISBN 13: 9780226470863

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groups—the callings-of the Middle Ages.

The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and women toward their own society. Through a variety of techniques, from a reading of the Song of Roland to a reading of administrative records, they identify characteristic viewpoints of members of the fighting class, the clergy, and the peasantry. Along with vivid descriptions of what life was like for warrior knights, monks, high churchmen, criminals, lepers, shepherds, and prostitutes, this innovative approach offers a valuable new perspective on the complex social dynamics of feudal Europe.

"Very useful discussions of texts, both learned and literary."—Christopher Dyer, Times Literary Supplement

Contributors: Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Franco Cardini, Enrico Castelnuovo, Giovanni Cherubini, Bronislaw Geremek, Aron Ja. Gurevich, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Jacques Le Goff, Giovanni Miccoli, Jacques Rossiaud, and AndrÉ Vauchez.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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

Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226470865
• ISBN 13: 9780226470863
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Herausgeber: Le Goff Jacques
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