Jacques Le Goff

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 in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part two, Medieval Civilization , is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power characteristic of Anglo-Saxon scholarship with the sensitivity and insight of the French historical tradition.

Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500

In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages, and the linked origins of the intellectuals - the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge. The author's argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new method (scholastic dialectic) and a new objective (knowledge for its own sake). For the first time in Spain, France, England and Germany the luxury of thinking and learning ceased to be the limited preserve of the higher echelons of the Church and the Court. The effect, the author shows, was to bring about an irreversible shift in European culture. This intellectual history of medieval Europe (translated from the revised French edition of 1984) will be widely welcomed by students and scholars of the Middle Ages throughout the English-speaking world.

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests. "Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."—Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books "The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books "The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement

The Medieval Imagination

Discusses medieval economic thought, centering on the belief that usury was immoral and unnatural

Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages

Your Money Or Your Life

Rozhdenie Evropy

La Edad Media explicada a los jóvenes

Mercadores e banqueiros da idade media

Una storia del cibo, indispensabile ingrediente della nostra vita quotidiana: un itinerario pieno di fascino tra l’evolversi dell’alimentazione e del gusto (e il suo rapporto con l’economia) e i riti legati alla cucina, tra l’etichetta e la dietetica, tra antiche ricette e moderni fast food, tra le bassezze del ventre e le raffinatezze del palato. Dalla nascita della nouvelle cuisine alle ricette degli antichi Babilonesi ed Egizi, un affascinante viaggio (molto piacevole da leggere) che incomincia nella Preistoria per approdare, attraverso Greci e Romani, monasteri medievali e ricche tavolate regali, alle mode gastronomiche dei giorni nostri.

Storia di 5000 anni di gastronomia

La cucina e la tavola

Ortaçağ kahramanları

Nicolas Truong

J. Le Goff, historien héritier de l'école des "Annales" et N. Truong, journaliste au "Monde de l'Education", présentent une étude sur le rapport au corps et à l'amour des hommes du Moyen Age. De l'abstinence à l'amour courtois, cet ouvrage aide à la compréhension de la genèse des perceptions contemporaines de l'apparence.

Une histoire du corps au moyen âge

The Birth of Europe (Making of Europe)

À la recherche du Moyen-Âge

هل يجب حقا تقطيع التاريخ شرائح؟

L'uomo medievale

Ortacagda Entelektüeller

Orta Cagda Ekonomi ve Din

Ya Parani Ya Canini

História e memória

Nesta obra, o leitor descobre a memória histórica, e encontra uma apresentação da História da Europa, desde a definição conceitual do que a Europa é, passando pelos aspectos geográficos, políticos, culturais e sociais, pelas heranças das civilizações grega e romana, pelas transformações destas heranças na Idade Média, com as influências do cristianismo, das ciências e das artes, para constituir o que se pode definir como sendo a Europa, e fornecendo, por fim, elementos para a discussão sobre a União Européia, com suas múltiplas implicações de ordem histórica, econômica e política.

Uma breve história da Europa

STEPHANIA MATOUSEK

Neste livro, Jacques Le Goff explora o imaginário medieval através de seus dois componentes supremos - de um lado, os heróis, como Carlos Magno, El Cid, o rei Artur, Rolando, a papisa Joana, Robin Hood, sem esquecer a fada Melusina e o mago Merlin, bem como a raposa e o unicórnio e, de outro, as maravilhas, três edifícios que dominam a sociedade - a catedral, o castelo e o claustro.

Jacques Le Goff

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