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Must We Divide History Into Periods?
Jacques Le Goff
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Hardback. Translator(s): DeBevoise, Malcolm. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBAH; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 185 x 20. Weight in Grams: 296.
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval ... Read more
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231173001
SKU
V9780231173001
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About Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014), for many years director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, was a highly influential member of the Annales School. Among his other works are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages and Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology. M. B. DeBevoise translates from the French and ... Read more
Reviews for Must We Divide History Into Periods?
The value of this work lies in its consideration of Western early modern history and its reflection on how we perceive and try to control time. It is a memoir of intellectual landscape by a man who lived with his subject for half a century. Le Goff evokes how the naming of a new period entails the rejection of what ... Read more