Medieval Callings

Name: Medieval Callings
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ISBN: 9780226470870

ISBN-10: 0226470873

ISBN-13: 9780226470870

Edition: 1990

Authors: Jacques Le Goff, Lydia G. Cochrane

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/18/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.94" wide x 11.81" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English