Le Goff The Birth of Europe

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3726-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Making of Europe

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 a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves,not just territorially, but in that other precious element ofhistory: time." The Guardian
* "A book that never fails to be informative, readable andprovocative. Le Goff... has been the bravest and best of championsfor medieval history. This book... is in every sense aninspiration." BBC History Magazine
* Praised by prominent figures in Europe and history including:Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH, Former Member of the EuropeanCommission, and Neil Kinnock, Vice-President, EuropeanCommission.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Le Goff, Jacques

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Maps xii
Introduction 1
Preludes: Before the Middle Ages 6
1 The Conception of Europe (Fourth to Eighth Centuries) 14
2 An Aborted Europe: The Carolingian World (Eighth to Tenth Centuries) 29
3 A Dream of Europe and the Potential Europe of the Year 1000 40
4 Feudal Europe (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries) 49
5 The ''Fine'' Europe of Towns and Universities (Thirteenth Century) 99
6 The Autumn of the Middle Ages or the Spring of a New Age? 154
Conclusion 194
Chronology 202
A Selective Thematic Bibliography 211
Index 252

Über Autor(innen)

Jacques Le Goff is Professor of History at L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is among France's "great" historians, and is considered internationally to be one of the foremost scholars of his generation. He has written widely on medieval history, and his books include Medieval Civilization (Blackwell, 1990), Intellectuals and the Middle Ages (Blackwell, 1993), and The Medieval World (1997).