The Work Of Jacques Le Goff And The Challenges Of Medieval History [Hardcover]

The essays in this volume arise from the proceedings of a conference held in 1994 to celebrate the life and work of the eminent French medievalist Jacques Le Goff. Set within thematic sections -popular religion and heresy, the body, royalty andits mystique, intellectuals in medieval society, and others -many of the challenges raised by Le Goff are reassessed and reapproached. There is an explicit historiographical focus in a section on the reception and influence of Le Goff, with particular reference to the Annales school of history with which he is strongly identified; the volume also indicates the problems which animate current research in medieval studies, especially in certain areas of social and cultural history. MIRI RUBIN is Professor of History, Queen Mary, University of London. Contributors: ALEXANDER MURRAY, PETER BILLER, ANDR? VAUCHEZ, R.I. MOORE, OTTO GERHARD OEXLE, LESTER K. LITTLE, WALTER SIMONS, ADELINE RUCQUOI, ALAIN BOUREAU, JEAN DUBABIN, WILLIAM CHESTER JORDAN, PETER LINEHAN, MIRI RUBIN, GABOR KLANICZAY, AARON GUREVICH, ROBIN BRIGGS, STUART CLARKEssays on medieval history inspired by, and engaging with, the work of Jacques Le Goff.Time and money - Alexander MurrayApplying number to men and women in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: an enquiry into the idea of `sex-ratio' - Peter BillerBetween sanctity and superstition: saints and their miracles in the age of revolution - R I MooreJacques le Goff and Italy - Andr? VauchezJacques le Goff in Germany - Otto Gerhard OexleMainstream and margins of medieval history in the United States - Lester K LittleThe Annales and medieval studies in the low countries - Walter P SimonsSpanish medieval history and the Annales: between Franco and Marx - Adeline RucquoiIntellectuals in the middle ages, 1957-1995 - Alain BoureauJacques le Goff and the intellectuals - Jean DunbabinQuando fuit natus: interpreting the birth of Philip Augustus - William Chester JordanThe King's touch and the Dean's ministations: lCœ