Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages
by Jacques Le Goff
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Arthur -- The Castle -- The Cathedral -- Charlemagne -- El Cid -- The Cloister -- The Jongleur -- Knights and Chivalry -- The Land of Cockaigne -- Melusina -- Merlin -- Pope Joan -- Reynard -- Robin Hood -- Roland -- Tristan and Iseult -- Troubadours and Trouve res -- The Unicorn -- The Valkyrie. Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages is a history like no other: it is a history of the imagination, presented between two celebrated groups of the period. One group consists of heroes: show more Charlemagne, El Cid, King Arthur, Orlando, Pope Joan, Melusine, Merlin the Wizard, and also the fox and the unicorn. The other is the miraculous, represented here by three forms of power that dominated medieval society: the cathedral, the castle, and the cloister. Roaming between the boundaries of the natural and the supernatural, between earth and the heavens, the medieval universe is illustrated by a shared iconography, covering a vast geographical span. This imaginative history is also a continuing story, which presents the heroes and marvels of the Middle Ages as the times defined them: venerated, then bequeathed to future centuries where they have continued to live and transform through remembrance of the past, adaptation to the present, and openness to the future. show lessTags
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Ein großformatiges prächtig bebildertes Werk, das eine ausgesuchte Schar illustrer realer und fiktiver Figuren (Karl der Große, Robin Hood, Orlando furioso ...) aus dem Mittelalter vorstellt, die - nicht nur - die mittelalterliche Bildwelt beeinflussten/prägten.
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Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) was a world-renowned historian of the Mid-die Ages. His many hooks include Medieval Civilization, The Birth of Europe, and The Medieval Imagination.
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- Canonical title*
- Ritter, Einhorn, Troubadoure : Helden und Wunder des Mittelalters
- Original title
- Héros et merveilles du Moyen Âge
- Original language
- French
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