Intellectuals in the Middle Ages - Couverture souple

Le Goff, Jacques; Le Goff, Jaques

 
9780631185192: Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0631185194 ISBN 13 : 9780631185192
Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

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, and the linked origins of the intellectuals - the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge. The author's argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new method (scholastic dialectic) and a new objective (knowledge for its own sake). For the first time in Spain, France, England and Germany the luxury of thinking and learning ceased to be the limited preserve of the higher echelons of the Church and the Court. The effect, the author shows, was to bring about an irreversible shift in European culture. This intellectual history of medieval Europe (translated from the revised French edition of 1984) will be widely welcomed by students and scholars of the Middle Ages throughout the English-speaking world.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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, and the linked origins of the intellectuals – the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge.
The author′s argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new method (scholastic dialectic) and a new objective (knowledge for its own sake). For the first time in Spain, France, England and Germany the luxury of thinking and learning ceased to be the limited preserve of the higher echelons of the Church and the Court. The effect, the author shows, was to bring about an irreversible shift in European culture.
This intellectual history of medieval Europe (translated from the revised French edition of 1984) will be widely welcomed by students and scholars of the Middle Ages throughout the English–speaking world.

Biographie de l'auteur

Jacques Le Goff is one of France′s most well known and respected historians. He is author of Medieval Civilization. He was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, one of France′s most prestigious intellectual prizes in 1991 – the first historian ever to have won. He is also general editor of the Making of Europe series, the first titles in which will be published in 1993.

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Éditeur
Blackwell Publishers
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0631185194
ISBN 13 
9780631185192
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0631170782 ISBN 13 :  9780631170785
Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1993
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