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Heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages / Jacques Le Goff ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
Van Pelt Library CB351 .L4144513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Goff, Jacques, 1924-2014, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Héros et merveilles du Moyen Âge. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Middle Ages.
- Heroes.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Arthur
- The Castle
- The Cathedral
- Charlemagne
- El Cid
- The Cloister
- The Jongleur
- Knights and Chivalry gg The Land of Cockaigne
- Melusina
- Merlin
- Pope Joan
- Reynard
- Robin Hood
- Roland
- Tristan and Iseult
- Troubadours and Trouveres
- The Unicorn
- The Valkyrie.
- Notes:
- Translated from French.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1789142121
- 9781789142129
- OCLC:
- 1113910312
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