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Noting that the doctrine of Purgatory does not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, the author identifies the pro...
Known for speaking with the birds, for professing poverty, receiving the stigmata and for initiating the Franciscan order, Francis of Assisi is one of...
In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions ...
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 micr...
In this fascinating book, which takes the form of a series of edited interviews with noted journalist Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Jacques Le Goff offers...
This 1000-year history of the civilization of western Europe has been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a p...
"When I studied these manuals, a source then little exploited, I noticed that the academic, like the merchant, was justified by reference to the labor...
In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages, ...
Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
In this intriguing study, Jacques Le Goff, one of the most esteemed contemporary French historians of the Middle Ages, presents a concise investigatio...
Jacques Le Goff argues that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspect...
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 t...
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 F...
Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Fe...
Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend
How The Golden Legend shaped the medieval imagination It is impossible to understand the Middle Ages without grasping the importance of The Golden Leg...
Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the p...
An Essay in Historical Anthropology
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Myths and Legends of Ireland
This beautiful book visits twenty-eight richly atmospheric sites and tells the mythological stories associated with them. Woven into these landscapes ...
A history of medieval civilization from 400 to 1500. The first part is a narrative account of the period, from barbarian settlement of Roman Europe to...