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The medieval imagination
Imaginaire médiéval. English
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- Creator
- Jacques Le Goff ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
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- English
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- Paperback edition
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992
- ©1988
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- vii, 293 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226470856, 0226470857
- OCLC
- ocm28910511
- Translation of: L'imaginaire médiéval.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 243-279.
- The marvelous in the medieval West -- the wilderness in the medieval West -- The perception of Christendom by the Roman curia and the organization of an Ecumenical Council in 1274 -- The time of Purgatory (third to thirteenth century) -- The time of the Exemplum (thirteenth century) -- Body and ideology in the medieval West -- Gestures in Purgatory -- The repudiation of pleasure -- Levi-Strauss in Broceliande: a brief analysis of a courtly romance -- Vestimentary and alimentary codes in Erec et Enide -- Warriors and conquering bourgeois: the image of the city in twelfth-century French literature -- An urban metaphor of William of Auvergne -- Social realities and ideological codes in the early thirteenth century: an Exemplum by James of Vitry -- Christianity and dreams (second to seventh century) -- The dreams of Helmbrecht the Elder