Intellectuals in the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Le Goff, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631170782 ISBN 13: 9780631170785

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 1992

Synopsis

Examines the creation of universities in the cities of Europe during the Middle Ages and discusses how medieval intellectuals ensured that the luxury of learning ceased to be limited to the Church and the Court

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From the Back Cover:

In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages, and the linked origins of the intellectuals - the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge.
The author's argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new method (scholastic dialectic) and a new objective (knowledge for its own sake). For the first time in Spain, France, England and Germany the luxury of thinking and learning ceased to be the limited preserve of the higher echelons of the Church and the Court. The effect, the author shows, was to bring about an irreversible shift in European culture.
This intellectual history of medieval Europe (translated from the revised French edition of 1984) will be widely welcomed by students and scholars of the Middle Ages throughout the English-speaking world.

About the Author:

Jacques Le Goff is one of France's most well known and respected historians. He is author of Medieval Civilization. He was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's most prestigious intellectual prizes in 1991 - the first historian ever to have won. He is also general editor of the Making of Europe series, the first titles in which will be published in 1993.

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0631170782
• ISBN 13: 9780631170785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256