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Kleinschmidt approaches the western European middle ages as a modern anthropologist would approach analysis of a remote culture. His objectives have something in common with Le Goff, as he seeks to identify with medieval society and culture without the encumbrance of later historical attitudes. This radical study traces the transformation of ideas in western Europe during more than one thousand years between the fifth and sixteenth centuries. Its central...
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HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT teaches in the College of International Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
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Given such a wide-ranging goal, his work tantalizes as much as it rewards... but he succeeds in subtly suggesting a great deal more than he covers explicitly. CHOICE A study that manages to catch some of the ferment and excitement of an age undergoing a vast series of changes in all areas... The reader comes away with a new sense of the dynamics of a long period of history....
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- PublisherBoydell Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 085115770X
- ISBN 13 9780851157702
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages422
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Understanding the Middle Ages: A Conceptual History of Medieval Culture
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Understanding the Middle Ages; the transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World
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Unstanding the Middle Ages the Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World
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