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Through this vivid study, Jean-Claude Schmitt examines medieval
religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in
ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related
to each other during the middle ages. Schmitt also discusses
Augustine's influence on medieval authors; the link between dreams
and autobiographical narratives; and monastic visions and folklore.
Including numerous color reproductions of ghosts and ghostly
trappings, this book presents a unique and intriguing look at
medieval culture.
"Valuable and highly readable. . . . ["Ghosts in the Middle Ages"]
will be of interest to many students of medieval thought and
culture, but especially to those seeking a general overview of this
particularly conspicuous aspect of the medieval remembrance of the
dead."--Hans Peter Broedel, "Medieval Review"
"A fascinating study of the growing prevalence of ghost imagery in
ecclesiastical and popular writing from the fifth to the fifteenth
century."--"Choice"
Sometime toward the middle of the twelfth century, it is
supposed, an otherwise obscure figure, born a Jew in Cologne and
later ordained as a priest in Cappenberg in Westphalia, wrote a
Latin account of his conversion to Christianity. Known as the
"Opusculum," this book purportedly by "Herman, the former Jew" may
well be the first autobiography to be written in the West after the
"Confessions" of Saint Augustine. It may also be something else
entirely.In "The Conversion of Herman the Jew" the eminent French
historian Jean-Claude Schmitt examines this singular text and the
ways in which it has divided its readers. Where some have seen it
as an authentic conversion narrative, others have asked whether it
is not a complete fabrication forged by Christian clerics. For
Schmitt the question is poorly posed. The work is at once true and
fictional, and the search for its lone author--whether converted
Jew or not--fruitless. Herman may well have existed and contributed
to the writing of his life, but the "Opusculum" is a collective
work, perhaps framed to meet a specific institutional agenda.With
agility and erudition, Schmitt examines the text to explore its
meaning within the society and culture of its period and its
participation in both a Christian and Jewish imaginary. What can it
tell us about autobiography and subjectivity, about the function of
dreams and the legitimacy of religious images, about individual and
collective conversion, and about names and identities? In "The
Conversion of Herman the Jew" Schmitt masterfully seizes upon the
debates surrounding the "Opusculum" (the text of which is newly
translated for this volume) to ponder more fundamentally the ways
in which historians think and write.
This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris,
the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the
margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek
examines the various groups which made up the marginal world -
beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals,
casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around
Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society.
Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to
the study of late medieval society which illuminates the
little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and
very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French
edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by
Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's
life and career to date.
However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual
passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world,
subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales
from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to
present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West
and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by
Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted
historians and social scientists traces the changing character and
status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the
lycees of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial
revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
Monumental in its scope, minute in its attention to detail, "A
History of Young People" takes us into the sensational rituals
surrounding youth in Roman antiquity (such as the Lupercalia, with
its nudity and whipping) and into the chivalric trials awaiting the
privileged young of the Middle Ages. Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and
Michel Pastoureau explore the elusive question of what defines
youth, a concept that over time has reached from infancy to the age
of forty. Elliott Horowitz and Renata Ago consider the young in the
context of the family--within the different worlds of European
Judaism and Catholicism through the Renaissance. Sabina Loriga
takes us through three centuries of military experience to temper
and complicate our assumptions about the youthful face of war.
Michelle Perrot focuses on working-class youth, and Jean-Claude
Caron on the young at school. The obedient and the rebellious are
here, the cherished and the sacrificed, the children catapulted
into adult responsibility, the adults whohave yet to forsake the
protections of childhood. What emerges in this history as never
before is a vast, richly textured picture of youth as a changing
constant of culture, society, economics, politics, and art, and as
a uniquely complex experience of acculturation in every life.
However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual
passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world,
subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales
from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to
present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West
and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by
Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted
historians and social scientists traces the changing character and
status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the
lycees of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial
revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth. Monumental in its scope,
minute in its attention to detail, A History of Young People takes
us into the sensational rituals surrounding youth in Roman
antiquity (such as the Lupercalia, with its nudity and whipping)
and into the chivalric trials awaiting the privileged young of the
Middle Ages. Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan and Michel Pastoureau explore
the elusive question of what defines youth, a concept that over
time has reached from infancy to the age of forty. Elliott Horowitz
and Renata Ago consider the young in the context of the
family--within the different worlds of European Judaism and
Catholicism through the Renaissance. Sabina Loriga takes us through
three centuries of military experience to temper and complicate our
assumptions about the youthful face of war. Michelle Perrot focuses
on working-class youth, and Jean-Claude Caron on the young at
school. The obedient and the rebellious are here, the cherished and
the sacrificed, the children catapulted into adult responsibility,
the adults who have yet to forsake the protections of childhood.
What emerges in this history as never before is a vast, richly
textured picture of youth as a changing constant of culture,
society, economics, politics, and art, and as a uniquely complex
experience of acculturation in every life.
La Vie de Charles IV (1316-1378), dont le recit s'arrete en 1346,
lors de l'accession de Wenceslas/Charles au trone germanique des
Romains, promesse d'un titre imperial encore riche des attentes
universelles de la Chretiente, est a la fois une reflexion sur la
vie et le pouvoir, sur les devoirs et la piete d'un roi et
l'histoire autoproclamee de l'enfance, de la jeunesse et de la
formation d'un souverain du XIVe siecle.
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