| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 133 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Becoming a medievalist -- The Middle Ages -- darkness or light : commonplaces -- A revolution : the book : a problem : sources -- 2. A long Middle Ages -- The idea of 'renaissance' -- A millennium and its division into periods -- 1215 : the Fourth Great Lateran Council -- 3. Merchants, bankers and intellectuals -- The invention of the economy -- Another space : thought -- Francis of Assisi : Mendicants in town -- 4. A civilisation takes shape -- Heaven comes down to earth -- Hell, purgatory, paradise -- Europe or the West? -- Feudalism -- The prestige of the law -- 5. On earth as in heaven -- Medieval humanism -- Heretics, Jews, outsiders ... -- Angels and demons -- Mary the protectress : dying 'in the faith' -- 6. Epilogue -- Bibliography of Jacques Le Goff's work |
| Summary |
In this fascinating book, which takes the form of a series of edited interviews with noted journalist Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Jacques Le Goff offers us a synthesis of his work on the Middle Ages |
| Notes |
"Based on a series of conversations between Jacques Le Goff and Jean-Maurice de Montremy"--Title page verso |
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Translated from the French |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
"Bibliography of Jacques Le Goff's work": pages 127-129 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Le Goff, Jacques, 1924-2014 -- Interviews
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Le Goff, Jacques, 1924-2014 |
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Medievalists -- France -- Interviews
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Historians -- France -- Interviews
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Middle Ages.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Civilization, Medieval
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Historians
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Medievalists
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Middle Ages
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Montremy, Jean-Maurice de
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| ISBN |
9781474470155 |
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1474470157 |
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