Medieval Imagination

Name: Medieval Imagination
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ISBN: 9780226470856

ISBN-10: 0226470857

ISBN-13: 9780226470856

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 302
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.



Translator's Note


Introduction For an Extended Middle Ages



The Marvelous


The Marvelous in the Medieval West



Space and Time The Wilderness in the Medieval West


The Perception of Christendom by the Roman Curia and the Organization of an Ecumenical Countil in 1274


The Time of Purgatory (Third to Thirteenth Century)


The Time of the Exemplum (Thirteenth Century)



The Body Body and Ideology in the Medieval West Gestures in Purgatory


The Repudiation of Pleasure



Literature and Imagination Leacute;vi-Strauss in Broceliande


A Brief Analysis of a Courtly Romance Vestimentary and Alimentary Codes in Erec et Enide Warriors and Conquering Bourgeois


The Image of the City in Twelfth-Century French Literature An Urban Metaphor of William of Auvergne Social Realities and Ideological Codes in the Early Thirteenth Century


An Exemplum




Dreams Christianity and Dreams (Second to Seventh Century)


The Dreams of Helmbrecht the Elder


Notes


Index