In The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and wi
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 li
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 generat
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the st
In this ground-breaking new study, Jacques Le Goff, arguably theleading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of theprimacy of the Middle Ages in the development of Europeanhistory."[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessmentfrom
In this book one of the most esteemed contemporary historians of the Middle Ages presents a concise examination of the problem that usury posed for the medieval Church, which had long denounced the lending of money for interest. Jacques Le Goff describes
Un affresco d'insieme dell'età medievale in cui vengono delineate le principali figure: il monaco, il cavaliere, il contadino, il cittadino, l'intellettuale, l'artista, il mercante, la donna, il santo, l'emarginato.
Pubblicato nel 1924, I re taumaturghi è un'opera che per la vastità della ricerca ha segnato una tappa importante nel cammino della storiografia francese ed europea, conservando intatta ancora oggi la sua carica di vivacità e attualità. Tema del libro
