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Saint Francis of Assisi: Jacques Le Goff Saint Francis of Assisi
Jacques Le Goff; Foreword by Sean L. Field
R3,969 Discovery Miles 39 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in Christianity. In this outstanding and celebrated biography, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a fascinating 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. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Sean L. Field.

Saint Francis of Assisi: Jacques Le Goff Saint Francis of Assisi
Jacques Le Goff; Foreword by Sean L. Field
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in Christianity. In this outstanding and celebrated biography, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a fascinating 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. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Sean L. Field.

Le Charivari (Microfilm, Reprint 2017): Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt Le Charivari (Microfilm, Reprint 2017)
Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt
R3,529 R2,639 Discovery Miles 26 390 Save R890 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Search of Sacred Time - Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend (Hardcover, Translated by L): Jacques Le Goff In Search of Sacred Time - Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend (Hardcover, Translated by L)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
R853 R726 Discovery Miles 7 260 Save R127 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of "The Golden Legend," the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled for clerical use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a best seller. By 1500, there were more copies of it in circulation than there were of the Bible itself. Priests drew on "The Golden Legend" for their sermons, the faithful used it for devotion and piety, and artists and writers mined it endlessly in their works. "In Search of Sacred Time" is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid, compelling, and unparalleled account of why and how "The Golden Legend" exerted such a profound influence on medieval life.

"In Search of Sacred Time" explains how "The Golden Legend"--an encyclopedic work that followed the course of the liturgical calendar and recounted the life of the saint for each feast day--worked its way into the fabric of medieval life. Le Goff describes how this ambitious book was carefully crafted to give sense and shape to the Christian year, underscoring its meaning and drama through the stories of saints, miracles, and martyrdoms. Ultimately, Le Goff argues, "The Golden Legend" influenced how medieval Christians perceived the passage of time, Christianizing time itself and reconciling human and divine temporality.

Authoritative, eloquent, and original, "In Search of Sacred Time" is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

My Quest for the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Maurice de Montremy My Quest for the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Maurice de Montremy; Translated by Richard Veasey
R3,002 Discovery Miles 30 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. In the course of these conversations he explains how he came to write his books and how an overall view of the civilisation of the Middle Ages gradually emerged; a civilisation which shaped 'western' culture both for better and for worse. Each conversation touches upon one of the major themes of his work and the book as a whole presents the reader with a fascinating attempt to recover, define, and understand the Middle Ages.

History and Memory (Hardcover): Jacques Le Goff History and Memory (Hardcover)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Steven Rendall, Elizabeth Claman
R3,287 Discovery Miles 32 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Vieja Europa y El Mundo Moderno (English, Spanish, Paperback): Jacques Le Goff Vieja Europa y El Mundo Moderno (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Jacques Le Goff
R175 Discovery Miles 1 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Your Money or Your Life - Economy & Religion in The Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed): Jacques Le Goff Your Money or Your Life - Economy & Religion in The Middle Ages (Paperback, New Ed)
Jacques Le Goff
R539 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R98 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 how, as the structure of economic life inevitably began to include financial loans, the Church refashioned its ideology in order to condemn the usurer not to Hell but merely to Purgatory. Le Goff is in the forefront of a history that studies "the deeply rooted and the slowly changing." As one keenly aware of the inertia of older societies, he is all the more able to delineate for us the disruptive forces of change.Jacques Le Goff is director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris, and codirector of the Annales - Economies, Societes, Civilisations. lie is the author of The Birth of Purgatory and Time, Work, and Culture. Distributed for Zone Books."

In Search of Sacred Time - Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend (Paperback): Jacques Le Goff In Search of Sacred Time - Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend (Paperback)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, who was one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid and compelling account that shows how The Golden Legend Christianized time itself, reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages (Hardcover): Jacques Le Goff Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
Jacques Le Goff
R502 R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Save R92 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented through two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle and the cloister. This imaginative history is a continuing story that presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present and openness to the future.

History and Memory (Paperback, Revised): Jacques Le Goff History and Memory (Paperback, Revised)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Steven Rendall, Elizabeth Claman
R1,109 Discovery Miles 11 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Heresies et societes dans l'Europe pre-industrielle 11e-18e siecles (French, Hardcover, Reprint 2017 ed.): Jacques Le Goff Heresies et societes dans l'Europe pre-industrielle 11e-18e siecles (French, Hardcover, Reprint 2017 ed.)
Jacques Le Goff
R5,886 Discovery Miles 58 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Must We Divide History Into Periods? (Hardcover): Jacques Le Goff Must We Divide History Into Periods? (Hardcover)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise
R757 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R39 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions-the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next-are much rarer than we think.

Legendary Ireland - Myths and Legends of Ireland (Hardcover): Eithne Massey Legendary Ireland - Myths and Legends of Ireland (Hardcover)
Eithne Massey; Photographs by Jacques Le Goff, Pip Sides
R511 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R78 (15%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This beautiful book visits twenty-eight richly atmospheric sites and tells the mythological stories associated with them. Woven into these landscapes are tales of love and betrayal, greed and courage, passion and revenge, featuring the famous characters of Celtic lore, such as Cu Chulainn, the children of Lir and Queen Maeve. The historical and archaeological facts and the folk traditions of each ancient site are explored. Some are famous, such as Tara and Newgrange; others are less well known but equally captivating such as the Beara Peninsula in Cork. In a world where many have lost touch with the land and their past, the legendary Irish landscape still survives and the stories are never quite over as long as there are people to tell them.

Saint Louis (Hardcover, Edition, Transl): Jacques Le Goff Saint Louis (Hardcover, Edition, Transl)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Gareth Gollrad
R2,529 R1,875 Discovery Miles 18 750 Save R654 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Life of a king, life of a saint, life of a man. In this work, Jacques LeGoff, one of the truly great medieval historians of our times, magisterially plumbs the depths of the fundamental contradiction of Saint Louis: is it possible to be both a king and a saint? St. Louis lies at the intersection of reasons of state and divine reason; he is an individual around whom LeGoff turns like a detective searching for an ever-elusive truth, that of a life and a legend inextricably intertwined. A fine, eminently readable translation. " --Robert J. Morrissey, University of Chicago

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214-1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century. He ruled when France was at the height of power; he commanded the largest army in Europe and controlled the wealthiest kingdom. Renowned for his patronage of the arts, Louis was equally famous for his decision to imitate the suffering Christ as a humbly attired, bearded penitent. Armed with the considerable resources of the "nouvel historien," Jacques Le Goff mines existing materials about Saint Louis to forge a new historical biography of the king. Part of his ambitious project is to reconstruct the mental universe of the thirteenth century: Le Goff describes the scholastic and intellectual background of Louis' reign and, most importantly, he discusses methodology and the interpretation of written sources--their composition, provenance, and reliability. Le Goff divides his unconventional biography into three parts. In the first, he gives us the contours of Louis' life from birth to death in the usual context of family dynamics and genealogy, courtly and regional politics, and shifts in economic, social, and cultural life. In sifting through the historical accounts of the king's life, Le Goff determines that it is Louis IX's profound sense of moral and religious purpose--his desire to become the ideal Christian ruler--that colors his every action from boyhood on; it is also, for Le Goff, what renders contemporary accounts problematic and what necessitates further scrutiny. That dissection of sources occupies the second part. Le Goff's intention is to pare away the layers of homily and anecdote produced by the king's early biographers to discover the true Saint Louis. Questioning whether Saint Louis was merely the invention of his eulogists, Le Goff penetrates beyond the literary and hagiographical evidence to the human behind the legend. He brilliantly analyzes Louis' progress toward his unique self-creation and its subsequent mythologizing. In the third part, Le Goff highlights the contradictions within Louis and his historical image that previous chroniclers have elided or overlooked. In the end, he leaves us with the saint, rather than the king, with all the paradoxes embedded in that role.

Must We Divide History Into Periods? (Paperback): Jacques Le Goff Must We Divide History Into Periods? (Paperback)
Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise
R673 R467 Discovery Miles 4 670 Save R206 (31%) Out of stock

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions-the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next-are much rarer than we think.

The Medieval Imagination (Paperback, Reprinted edition): Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer The Medieval Imagination (Paperback, Reprinted edition)
Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests.
"Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."--Maurice Keen, "New York Review of Books"
"The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."--Tom Shippey, "London Review of Books"
"The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."--M. T. Clanchy, "Times Literary Supplement"

Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New edition): Jacques Le Goff Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages (Paperback, New edition)
Jacques Le Goff
R1,436 Discovery Miles 14 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the "Annales" school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumezil, and Levi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" ("un autre moyen age"), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective "mentalite "from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.

The Birth of Purgatory (Paperback, New edition): Jacques Le Goff The Birth of Purgatory (Paperback, New edition)
Jacques Le Goff
R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory did not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, that the word "purgatorium" did not exist until then. He shows that the growth of a belief in an intermediate place between Heaven and Hell was closely bound up with profound changes in the social and intellectual reality of the Middle Ages. Throughout, Le Goff makes use of a wealth of archival material, much of which he has translated for the first time, inviting readers to examine evidence from the writings of great, obscure, or anonymous theologians.

Constructing the Past - Essays in Historical Methodology (Paperback): Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Nora Constructing the Past - Essays in Historical Methodology (Paperback)
Jacques Le Goff, Pierre Nora; Introduction by Colin Lucas
R1,335 Discovery Miles 13 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This 1985 book presents a selection of ten of the most significant contributions to Faire de l'histoire, a major three-volume exposition of the fresh state of French historiography first published in 1974. All the essays were commissioned from historians representing the best of the 'Annales' tradition, including Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, Francois Furet and Georges Duby. The first five essays concentrate upon the physical world, and deal with some of the more familiar aspects of 'new history'; the second half of the book is concerned with the unconscious world of mentalites, the network of belief, symbol and cultural practice that is attracting the attention of historians in ever-increasing numbers. In an introduction Colin Lucas places the essays in this collection within the long-term development of French historical study, and assesses not only its great strengths but also some of the doubts and dilemmas to which it has given rise.

Medieval Callings (Paperback, 2nd ed.): Jacques Le Goff Medieval Callings (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Jacques Le Goff
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 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 Andre Vauchez.

Le Moyen Age Sur Le Bout Du Nez (French, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Chiara Frugoni Le Moyen Age Sur Le Bout Du Nez (French, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Chiara Frugoni; Preface by Jacques Le Goff; Translated by Silvano Servanti
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Out of stock
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