Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages

About this book

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the Annales school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" ( un autre moyen âge ), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalité from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.