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Tom Shippey, 1 June 1989
Medieval Civilisation 400-1500
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow.
Blackwell, 393 pp., £19.95, November 1988,0 631 15512 0 Show More
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow.
Blackwell, 393 pp., £19.95, November 1988,
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. Vol. I: 350-950
edited by Robert Fossier, translated by Janet Sondheimer.
Cambridge, 556 pp., £30, February 1989,0 521 26644 0 Show More
edited by Robert Fossier, translated by Janet Sondheimer.
Cambridge, 556 pp., £30, February 1989,
The Medieval Imagination
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Chicago, 293 pp., £21.95, November 1988,0 226 47084 9 Show More
by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Chicago, 293 pp., £21.95, November 1988,
Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages
by Georges Vigarello, translated by Jean Birrell.
Cambridge/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 239 pp., £25, October 1988,0 521 34248 1 Show More
by Georges Vigarello, translated by Jean Birrell.
Cambridge/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 239 pp., £25, October 1988,
Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power
by Jesse Byock.
California, 264 pp., $32.50, October 1988,0 520 05420 2 Show More
by Jesse Byock.
California, 264 pp., $32.50, October 1988,
“... nos cochons – as also, à nos chemises. ‘Vestimentary codes’ are in many ways illuminated by Georges Vigarello’s Concepts of Cleanliness, a work predictably full of horror. The bidet was not invented till the early 18th century, but when it was, some French ladies at least received visitors while making vigorous use of the new utensil. Other ... ”
