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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,
“... and comparison was the empire of Islam – to which this book devotes welcome and unusual space. Fossier’s collection is, in short, an excellent guide (or perhaps rather a companion): but it does not have that ‘common-man’ perspective which did so much for Medieval Civilisation. What has happened to the history of familiar things? Here Le Goff’s much ... ”
