A. J. Gurevich

Categories of Medieval Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Campbell, G. L

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in. Medieval behaviour - social, economic, political and religious, was regulated by the Medieval picture of the world. This book discusses the most important concepts of medieval culture - space and time, law, the attitude towards work, wealth and poverty - as they are reflected in the vernacular literature of the age: sagas, epics, courtly romances, the love songs of the troubadours, and the works of Dante, as well as numerous Latin writings. This enables the reader to reconstruct the culture of the Middle Ages, revealing it as a culture which resulted from the meeting of several traditions - Christian, classical and barbarian.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040330548
• Artikelnr.: 73648001

Autorenporträt

A. J. Gurevich (1924-2006) was a Russian medievalist historian. George L. Campbell (1912-2004) was a Scottish linguist who worked for the BBC World Service from 1939 until 1974.

Inhaltsangabe

1.The Norman Conquest i) Domesday Book - Motives for its Formation;
Extracts; Statistics ii). William of Malmesbury's account of the Norman
Conquest iii). An Estimate of William the Conqueror from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle 2. The constitutional Struggle Between the Brons and the Monarchy
3. The Catholic Church 4. Trade Guilds and Universities 5. The Age of the
Crusades i) The First Crusade: Extract from William of Malmesbury's
Chronicle of the Kings of England ii) Extracts from the Itinerarium
Kambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis iii) Extracts from Joinville's Chronicle of
the Crusade of St. Louis iv) Extracts from the Voyages and Travels of 'Sir
John Maundeville' v) Extracts from the Works of Roger Bacon 6. The Hundred
Years' War i) The Military Exploits: Froissart's Account of the Battle of
Creçy ii) The War and the Church 7. The Black Death i) The Statute of
Labourers, 1349 ii) The Second Statute of Labourers, 1351 iii) Population
of England as Recorded in the Poll-Tax Accounts of 1377 and 1381 iv)
Extracts from the Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales v) The Vision of
Piers Plowman: Prologue and Parts of Passus I 8. The Decline of Medieval
Civilization i) A Selection from the Paston Letters ii) Extracts from the
Stonor Papers 9. The End of the Middle Ages i) The Libel of English Policy
ii) Extracts from More's History of King Richard III