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Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World

Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World

Kleinschmidt, Harald

Paperback

Series: Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World

Medieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 0851159494
ISBN13: 9780851159492
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: Feb 27 2003
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
Kleinschmidt approaches the western European middle ages as a modern anthropologist would approach analysis of a remote culture. His objectives have something in common with Le Goff, as he seeks to identify with medieval society and culture without the encumbrance of later historical attitudes. This radical study traces the transformation of ideas in western Europe during more than one thousand years between the fifth and sixteenth centuries. Its central concern is to interpret and understand changing attitudes towards time, space, the human body, human and social relationships, productivity and distribution, travel, modes of thought, attitudes to the past, age versus youth, war, faith, and social and political order. Illustrations and narrative work together in this book to present medieval culture as one shaped by the spoken word and the visual image. Drawing extensively from a wide range of primary source material, the breadth and originality of Kleinschmidt's study will have an important influence on scholarly perception of the middle ages, as a period of continual change and continually changing attitudes.

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