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Jacques Le Goff (Editor)
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 s 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 SupplementContributors: 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 of Pages: 400Dimensions: 1.12 x 9.02 x 5.99 INPublication Date: December 18, 1995
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