The Medieval Imagination

by Jacques Le Goff

Book Overview

To write this history of the imagination, Le Goff has recreated the mental structures of medieval men and women by analyzing the images of man as microcosm and the Church as mystical body; the symbols of power such as flags and oriflammes; and the contradictory world of dreams, marvels, devils, and wild forests. "Le Goff is one of the most distinguished of the French medieval historians of his generation . . . he has exercised immense influence."-Maurice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226470849
• ISBN13: 9780226470849
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"