My Quest for the Middle Ages / / Jacques Le Goff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Le Goff, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Foreword --; 1 Becoming a Medievalist --; 2 A Long Middle Ages --; 3 Merchants, Bankers and Intellectuals --; 4 A Civilisation Takes Shape --; 5 On Earth as in Heaven --; 6 Epilogue --; Bibliography of Jacques Le Goff's Work --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474470155; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474470155
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jacques Le Goff.

In this fascinating book, which takes the form of a series of edited interviews with noted journalist Jean-Maurice de Montremy, Jacques Le Goff offers us a synthesis of his work. In the course of these conversations he explains how he came to write his books and how an overall view of the civilisation of the Middle Ages gradually emerged; a civilisation which shaped 'western' culture both for better and for worse. Each conversation touches upon one of the major themes of his work and the book as a whole presents the reader with a fascinating attempt to recover, define, and understand the Middle Ages.