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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,
“... Very good, Mr Hardy. Excellent poetry, especially in a time of the breaking of nations (1915). One of time’s universals. ‘War’s annals will cloud into night/Ere their story die.’ But what if you haven’t invented the harrow yet? Or indeed the collar for harnessing horses? The former is not seen till the Bayeux Tapestry; the date of the latter is much debated, but is definitely a Medieval, not an antique invention ... ”
