Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
A Master of the Middle Ages
By Maurice Keen
Medieval Civilization: 400-1500
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow
Basil Blackwell, 393 pp., $34.95
The Medieval Imagination
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
University of Chicago Press, 293 pp., $27.50
Your Money or Your Life
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Patricia Ranum
Zone Books, 116 pp., $18.95
Jacques Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation, a generation in which the French have consistently set the pace for medieval studies. Through his writings, through his long tenure as president of the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes and as a co-director of the journal Annales, which has given its name to an entire school of historical study, he has exercised immense influence. It is ironic, therefore, that the book that securely established his reputation as one of the new masters of the historian's craft, La civilisation de l'Occident médiéval, first published in 1964, should only now appear in English translation, while so many of his subsequent writings (including the two works also reviewed here), have already been translated.
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