The Medieval Imagination (English and French Edition)

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UPC:
9780226470849
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
10/1/1988
Author:
Jacques Le Goff
Language:
english,french
Edition:
y First English language edition
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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