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The Medieval World The History Of The

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Men, the only object of history-of a history that is nol interested. in who knows what eternal, abstract man, profoundly immutable and perpetually identical to himself, but in men, taken always within the framework of the societies to which they belonged; in men [who werel members of those societies in a clearly defined period in the society’s development; men gifted with multiple functions, diverse activities, varied preoccupations and attitudes, all of which mix together, col· lide, contradict one another, and end up agreeing on a peaceful compromise, a modus “operandi that is called Life.’

Man and men, men in the society of the Christian West in their principal functions-that is, in their essence, but also in the concrete reality of their social status, their trade,

their profession-in the age of a medieval diptych whose first panel shows the prodigious development of Christianity between the year 1000 and the thirteenth century and whose second panel shows that turbid lime called the later Middle Ages, when a world of the past in crisis and a new Middle Ages, the Renaissance, whirled in tandem. But also living people in their social situation, with their beliefs and their practices. Such is the subject of this book.

MAN OR MEN?

Most of the authors of these have emphasized diversity in the type of medieval men they present. Giovanni Niccoli has even preferred to speak of “monks” rather than “the monk.” Indeed, there was a world of difference between the monks of Provence (Lerins, Saint-Victor of Marseilles) of the fourth and fifth centuries, who took inspiration from the eastern model of the Fathers of the desert, and the Cluniac monks of the tenth century and beyond; between the Irish monks of the seventh and eighth centuries and the Cistercians of the twelfth century; between St.

Benedict and Joachim of Fiore.

• Creator/s: Jacques Le Goff
• Book Topics/Themes: Middle Ages, Medieval, culture, time, work, Oratores, Bellatores, Laboratores, Monarchy, King, Trifunctional, Feudalism, Priests, Warriors, Peasants, Farmers, Nobility, Clerus, Commoners, Craftsmen, Guilds, Knights, loyalty, honour, social order, ecclesia, Noah, Shem, Ham, Japhet, Genesis, Adam, Eve, mechanical arts, liberal arts, Intellectual class, Theology, Church and State, City, Rural, Towns, Artist, Village, Merchant, Royal, Hierarchy

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