Jacques Le Goff

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in Christianity.In this outstanding and celebrated biography, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a fascinating picture of the life of Francis of Assisi. Locating Francis in the feudal world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and exploring the social and political changes taking place at the time, Le Goff assess the dramatic influence of the saint on the medieval church and celebrates his role in the spiritual revival of the Catholic Church.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Sean L. Field.

Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of the most radical and inspiring figures in Christianity.In this outstanding and celebrated biography, the distinguished medievalist Jacques Le Goff paints a fascinating picture of the life of Francis of Assisi. Locating Francis in the feudal world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and exploring the social and political changes taking place at the time, Le Goff assess the dramatic influence of the saint on the medieval church and celebrates his role in the spiritual revival of the Catholic Church.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Sean L. Field.

Kniga neprevzojdennogo znatoka i issledovatelja kultury Zapadnoj Evropy znakomit chitatelja s interesnejshimi detaljami srednevekovoj evropejskoj zhizni. Zhak Le Goff issleduet samo srednevekovoe predstavlenie o zhizni, ee gerojakh - rytsarjakh bez strakha i upreka ili blagorodnykh razbojnikakh; o mestakh, s kotorymi u nas svjazano predstavlenie o Srednevekove, - ukreplennom zamke ili kafedralnom sobore; o fantasticheskikh suschestvakh, nashedshikh otrazhenie v mrachnovatom i vlekuschem mire starinnykh legend.

Odin iz samykh avtoritetnykh istorikov XX veka, Zhak Le Goff rassmatrivaet srednevekovyj Zapad v zadannykh im parametrakh materialnoj kultury i sotsialnoj ierarkhii, otkryvajuschikh nam kak cheloveka prostranstva vremeni, Srednevekovja v ego povsednevnosti i v ego mentalnosti, tak i osobennosti dukhovnoj kultury ljudej v Srednie veka.Avtor knigi, predprinimaet popytku szhato, no predelno jarko i ubeditelno okharakterizovat osnovnye osobennosti srednevekovoj tsivilizatsii. V tsentre vnimanija avtora - Prostranstvo i Vremja v zhizni i vosprijatii cheloveka srednevekovoj Evropy, ego materialnaja zhizn, kharakteristika sotsialnoj sistemy i, glavnoe, analiz mentaliteta, kollektivnoj psikhologii, sposobov chuvstvovat i myslit.

”Pappa, vad är egentligen historia bra för.” Med denna fråga från sin son inleder Marc Bloch sina reflektioner över historikerns verksamhet, vad den syftar till, hur den förhåller sig till andra vetenskaper och vilka som är dess grundläggande grepp eller metoder. Vi möter här en av det förra århundradets stora historiker, känd för sina medeltidshistoriska arbeten, i en levande och medryckande betraktelse över historikerns kall. Marc Blochs "Till historiens försvar eller Historia som yrke" är en historievetenskaplig klassiker. Den utkom postumt 1949 baserad på efterlämnade manuskript. Bloch deltog i den franska motståndsrörelsen, togs till fånga och avrättades av Gestapo 1944. Utgivningen ombesörjdes av Lucien Febvre, som tillsammans med Bloch 1929 hade grundat tidskriften Annales, vilken skulle komma att ge namn åt en inflytelserik skola av franska historiker. 1993 utkom en reviderad utgåva baserad på en ny genomgång av Blochs manuskript. Nils Edling, professor i historia vid Stockholms universitet, svarar för en inledning som tillsammans med den kände Annales-historikern Jacques Le Goffs förord till den reviderade franska utgåvan sätter in texten i dess biografiska och historiografiska sammanhang, relaterar den till Annales-skolans forskningsprogram och förklarar varför den har en berättigad klassikerstatus och bör läsas av envar som ställer sig sonens fråga.

Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented through two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle and the cloister.This imaginative history is a continuing story that presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present and openness to the future.

How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imaginationIt is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a bestseller. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, who was one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid and compelling account that shows how The Golden Legend Christianized time itself, reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

Izvestnejshij frantsuzskij medievist rassmatrivaet Srednie veka, prezhde vsego, s tochki zrenija skladyvanija evropejskoj identichnosti. Imenno v etu epokhu, kotoraja zasluzhivaet samogo pristalnogo k sebe otnoshenija, sformirovalis osnovnye cherty znakomoj nam Evropy. Samo ponjatie "Evropa" vstrechaetsja uzhe v dokumentakh VII veka, a pervaja popytka ee obedinenija voskhodit k sledujuschemu stoletiju. Dalee, na protjazhenii vsego Srednevekovja, skladyvalis otlichitelnye osobennosti Evropy kak osoboj sotsiokulturnoj obschnosti obedinennoj khristianskimi tsennostjami, i voznikali pervye rostki obscheevropejskogo samosoznanija.Perevodchik: Popova A. I.Redaktor: Kononov AleksandrKhudozhnik: Losev Pavel

V rabote vydajuschegosja frantsuzskogo medievista Zhaka Le Goffa rassmatrivaetsja problema istoricheskoj periodizatsii, kotoraja imeet ne tolko formalnoe, no i soderzhatelnoe znachenie: perekhod na novyj etap razvitija soprovozhdaetsja otritsaniem obschestvom tsennostej predyduschego perioda. Imenno takie ideologicheskie perelomy Le Goff schitaet sistemoobrazujuschimi: oni pozvoljajut provesti granitsy mezhdu takimi epokhami, kak Antichnost, Srednevekove, Novoe vremja.Otdelno uchenyj rassmatrivaet periody, kotorye v nauke traditsionno imenujut "Srednimi vekami" i "Vozrozhdeniem". Termin "Vozrozhdenie" voznik v rabotakh uchenykh XIX veka. Opredelit khronologicheskie ramki etogo perioda dovolno slozhno. Rassmatrivaja odin za drugim priznaki, otlichajuschie Vozrozhdenie kak epokhu ot predshestvujuschego vremeni, Zhak Le Goff prikhodit k vyvodu, chto Voz...

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions-the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next-are much rarer than we think.

Kniga znamenitogo frantsuzskogo istorika Zhaka Le Goffa - uvlekatelnyj rasskaz o sobytijakh evropejskoj istorii ot epokhi Antichnosti do kontsa XX stoletija. V povestvovanii Le Goffa est i istoricheskij analiz, i rasskaz o byte i povsednevnoj zhizni evropejtsev, i ljubopytnye svedenija iz geografii, sotsiologii, kultury. Zhivoj, gibkij stil izlozhenija, nabljudatelnost istorika i umenie kratko, emko rasskazat o vazhnejshikh sobytijakh proshlogo lishnij raz podcherkivajut pronitsatelnost frantsuzskogo uchenogo, napisavshego etu knigu.Dlja starshego shkolnogo vozrasta.Perevodchik: Kudrjakova NataljaKhudozhnik: Bisengaliev V. K., Semenova T. O.

V kratkom kurse istorii tela rasskazyvaetsja o glavnom obekte diskussij i konfliktov togo vremeni, razmyshljaja o svobode, chuvstvennosti i seksualnosti. Otnoshenie k telu, ugnetaemomu i prevoznosimomu, v Srednie veka bylo protivorechivym i neodnoznachnym - ot vozderzhanija svjaschennikov do naslazhdenija mirjan, ot ustoev khristianstva do perezhitkov jazychestva, ot mody v odezhde do privychek v pitanii, ot tselibata do strastnoj ljubvi.

We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century. While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions-the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next-are much rarer than we think.

Izvestnejshij frantsuzskij medievist rassmatrivaet Srednie veka prezhde vsego s tochki zrenija skladyvanija evropejskoj identichnosti. Imenno v etu epokhu, kotoraja zasluzhivaet samogo pristalnogo k sebe otnoshenija, sformirovalis osnovnye cherty znakomoj nam Evropy. Samo ponjatie "Evropa" vstrechaetsja uzhe v dokumentakh VII veka, a pervaja popytka ee obedinenija voskhodit k sledujuschemu stoletiju. Dalee, na protjazhenii vsego Srednevekovja, skladyvalis otlichitelnye osobennosti Evropy kak osoboj sotsiokulturnoj obschnosti, obedinennoj khristianskimi tsennostjami, i voznikali pervye rostki obscheevropejskogo samosoznanija.

It is impossible to understand the late Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Legend, the most popular medieval collection of saints' lives. Assembled for clerical use in the thirteenth century by Genoese archbishop Jacobus de Voragine, the book became the medieval equivalent of a best seller. By 1500, there were more copies of it in circulation than there were of the Bible itself. Priests drew on The Golden Legend for their sermons, the faithful used it for devotion and piety, and artists and writers mined it endlessly in their works. In Search of Sacred Time is the first comprehensive history and interpretation of this crucial book. Jacques Le Goff, one of the world's most renowned medievalists, provides a lucid, compelling, and unparalleled account of why and how The Golden Legend exerted such a profound influence on medieval life. In Search of Sacred Time explains how The Golden Legend--an encyclopedic work that followed the course of the liturgical calendar and recounted the life of the saint for each feast day--worked its way into the fabric of medieval life. Le Goff describes how this ambitious book was carefully crafted to give sense and shape to the Christian year, underscoring its meaning and drama through the stories of saints, miracles, and martyrdoms. Ultimately, Le Goff argues, The Golden Legend influenced how medieval Christians perceived the passage of time, Christianizing time itself and reconciling human and divine temporality. Authoritative, eloquent, and original, In Search of Sacred Time is a major reinterpretation of a book that is central to comprehending the medieval imagination.

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how, in a society dominated by religion, the Church viewed money, and how it taught Christians what attitudes they should adopt towards it and towards the uses to which it could be put. He shows that, although money played an important role in the rise of towns and trade and in state formation, there was no capitalism but only a pre-capitalism in the Middle Ages, even by their end, in the absence of a truly global market. This is why economic development remained slow and limited, in spite of some remarkable success stories. It was a period in which it was as important to give money as it was to earn it. True wealth was not yet the wealth of this world, even though money played an increasingly large role in reality and in mentalities.No similar discussion of this subject, aimed at a wide readership, has previously been published. Written by one of the greatest medievalists, this book will be recognized as a standard work on the topic.

Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types of money, in the economy, life and mentalities of the Middle Ages. He seeks also to explain how, in a society dominated by religion, the Church viewed money, and how it taught Christians what attitudes they should adopt towards it and towards the uses to which it could be put. He shows that, although money played an important role in the rise of towns and trade and in state formation, there was no capitalism but only a pre-capitalism in the Middle Ages, even by their end, in the absence of a truly global market. This is why economic development remained slow and limited, in spite of some remarkable success stories. It was a period in which it was as important to give money as it was to earn it. True wealth was not yet the wealth of this world, even though money played an increasingly large role in reality and in mentalities.No similar discussion of this subject, aimed at a wide readership, has previously been published. Written by one of the greatest medievalists, this book will be recognized as a standard work on the topic.

Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214-1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century. He ruled when France was at the height of power; he commanded the largest army in Europe and controlled the wealthiest kingdom. Renowned for his patronage of the arts, Louis was equally famous for his choice to imitate the suffering Christ as a humbly attired, bearded penitent. Armed with the considerable resources of the nouvel historien, Jacques Le Goff mines existing materials about Saint Louis to forge a new historical biography of the king. Part of his ambitious project is to reconstruct the mental universe of the thirteenth century: Le Goff describes the scholastic and intellectual background of Louis's reign and, most importantly, he discusses methodology and the interpretation of written sources—their composition, provenance, and reliability. Le Goff divides his unconventional biography into three parts. In the first, he gives us the contours of Louis's life from birth to death in the usual context of family dynamics and genealogy, courtly and regional politics, and shifts in economic, social, and cultural life. In sifting through the historical accounts of the king's life, Le Goff determines that it is Louis IX's profound sense of moral and religious purpose—his desire to become the ideal Christian ruler—that colors his every action from boyhood on; it is also, for Le Goff, what renders contemporary accounts problematic and what necessitates further scrutiny. That dissection of sources occupies the second part. Le Goff's intention is to pare away the layers of homily and anecdote produced by the king's early biographers to discover the true St. Louis. Questioning whether St. Louis was merely the invention of his eulogists, Le Goff penetrates beyond the literary and hagiographical evidence to the human behind the legend. He brilliantly analyzes Louis's progression toward his unique self-creation and its subsequent mythologizing. In the third part, Le Goff highlights the contradictions within Louis and his historical image that previous chroniclers have elided and overlooked. In the end, he leaves us with the saint, rather than the king, with all the paradoxes embedded within that dual role. A prolific medievalist of international renown, Jacques Le Goff (1924- ) is the former director of studies at the L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his honors is the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for History, bestowed in 2004 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to Le Goff for "fundamentally changing our view of the Middle Ages." He was also among the recipients of the 2007 Dan David Prize in recognition of contributions to his discipline. of Louis' life from birth to death in the usual context of family dynamics and genealogy, courtly and regional politics, and shifts in economic, social, and cultural life. In sifting through the historical accounts of the king's life, Le Goff determines that it is Louis IX's profound sense of moral and religious purpose—his desire to become the ideal Christian ruler—that colors his every action from boyhood on; it is also, for Le Goff, what renders contemporary accounts problematic and what necessitates further scrutiny. That dissection of sources occupies the second part. Le Goff's intention is to pare away the layers of homily and anecdote produced by the king's early biographers to discover the true Saint Louis. Questioning whether Saint Louis was merely the invention of his eulogists, Le Goff penetrates beyond the literary and hagiographical evidence to the human behind the legend. He brilliantly analyzes Louis' progress toward his unique self-creation and its subsequent mythologizing. In the third part, Le Goff highlights the contradictions within Louis and his historical image that previous chroniclers have elided or overlooked. In the end, he leaves us with the saint, rather than the king, with all the paradoxes embedded in that role.

In this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history. "[A] superb and necessary book. This provocative assessment from a lifetime of scholarship might help us to place ourselves, not just territorially, but in that other precious element of history: time."—The Guardian"A book that never fails to be informative, readable and provocative. Le Goff... has been the bravest and best of champions for medieval history. This book... is in every sense an inspiration."—BBC History MagazinePraised by prominent figures in Europe and history including: Rt Hon Christopher Patten, CH, Former Member of the European Commission, and Neil Kinnock, Vice-President, European Commission.