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The Birth of Purgatoryby Jacques Le GoffISBN 0226470830 (0-226-47083-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Constructing the Pastby Jacques Le Goff , Pierre NoraISBN 0521277825 (0-521-27782-5)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The European Cityby Jacques Le Goff , Pierre NoraISBN 0631173021 (0-631-17302-1)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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European Revolutions, 1492-1992by Jacques Le Goff , Pierre NoraISBN 0631173986 (0-631-17398-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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History and Memoryby Jacques Le Goff , Elizabeth Claman, Steven RendallISBN 023107591X (0-231-07591-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History and Memory'Book summary: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 strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.
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Intellectuals in the Middle Agesby Jacques Le Goff , Teresa Lavender FaganISBN 0631170782 (0-631-17078-2)
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Medieval Callingsby Jacques Le Goff , Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0226470873 (0-226-47087-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Callings'Book summary:These essays by eleven internationally renowned historians present nuanced profiles of the major social and professional groupsthe callings-of the Middle Ages.[via]
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.
Medieval Civilization, 400-1500by Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631155120 (0-631-15512-0)
Hardcover, B. Blackwell
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The Medieval Imaginationby Jacques Le Goff , Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0226470857 (0-226-47085-7)
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The Peasantry of Europeby Jacques Le Goff , Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0631175032 (0-631-17503-2)
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The Romantic Movementby Jacques Le Goff , Arthur GoldhammerISBN 0631173994 (0-631-17399-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romantic Movement'Book summary:The Romantic Movement in Europe was both a revolt and a revival, a philosophy of life as well as of art. In the earliest expressions of romantic theory by Rousseau and Diderot, it is seen as a revolt against rationalism. In Great Britain and Italy, it appears as a revolt against classicism, in Spain as a revival of the tradition of the Moorish courts, and in Germany, where it excited the greatest enthusiasm, as both a revolt against rationalism and, equally, a revival of all things Gothic and Germanic. Despite the differences of aim and emphasis across Europe, Professor Cranston argues, Romanticism was a European phenomenon, as universal as the Renaissance. He isolates its common features: liberty, introspection and the importance of love; truth in the expression of feeling as much as of thought; nature seen as an object of devotion rather than scientific study; a tolerance of the grotesque coupled with an interest in the exotic, the primitive and the medieval; a concern for the value of intuition over rationalization and a preference for audacity over prudence. The Romantic Movement is part of the common European heritage, he argues, and its influence is by no means at an end. [via]
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Saint Francis of Assisiby Jacques Le Goff , Christine RhoneISBN 0415284732 (0-415-28473-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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In this celebrated biography, now available in English for the first time, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a detailed picture of the life of Francis of Assisi. Locating Francis in the feudal world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and exploring the social and political changes taking place at the time, Le Goff assess the dramatic influence of the saint on the medieval church and celebrates his role in the spiritual revival of the Catholic Church. [via]More editions of Saint Francis of Assisi:
The Search for the Perfect Languageby Jacques Le Goff , Christine RhoneISBN 0631174656 (0-631-17465-6)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for the Perfect Language'Book summary:The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history.
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.
The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.
To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History.
The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America. [via]
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Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Agesby Jacques Le GoffISBN 0226470814 (0-226-47081-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Town As an Agent of Civilisation, C.1200-C.1500by Jacques Le Goff , Edmund KingISBN 0006327575 (0-00-632757-5)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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