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The Medieval Imagination

The Medieval Imagination

Le Goff, Jacques
Goldhammer, Arthur

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226470857
ISBN13: 9780226470856
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 15 1992
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
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

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