Main entry:

Le Goff, Jacques, 1924-2014, author.

Title & Author:

Time, work, & culture in the Middle Ages / Jacques Le Goff ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Description:

xvi, 384 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of Pour un autre Moyen Age: temps, travail et culture en Occident.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The several Middle Ages of Jules Michelet -- Merchant's time and church's time in the Middle Ages -- Labor time in the "crisis" of the fourteenth century : from medieval time to modern time -- A note on tripartite society, monarchical ideology, and economic renewal in ninth- to twelfth-century Christendom -- Licit and illicit trades in the medieval west -- Labor, techniques, and craftsmen in the value systems of the early Middle Ages (fifth to tenth centuries) -- Peasants and the rural world in the literature of the early Middle Ages (fifth and and sixth centuries) -- Academic expenses at Padua in the fiftheenth century -- Trades and professions as represented in the medieval confessors' manuals --How did the medieval university conceive of itself -- The universities and the public authorities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- Clerical culture and folklore traditions in Merovingian civilization -- Ecclesiastical culture and folklore in the Middle Ages : Saint Marcellus of Paris and the dragon -- The medieval west and the Indian Ocean : an oneiric horizon -- Dreams in the culture and collective psychology of the medieval west -- Melusina : mother and pioneer -- The historian and the ordinary man -- The symbolic ritual of vassalage.
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Summary:

"When I studied these manuals, a source then little exploited, I noticed that the academic, like the merchant, was justified by reference to the labor he accomplished. The novelty of the academics thus ultimately appeared to lie in their role as intellectual workers. My attention was therefore drawn to two notions whose ideological avatars I attempted to trace through the concrete social conditions in which they developed. These notions were labor and time. Under these two heads I maintain two open files, from which some of the articles collected here are drawn. I am still persuaded that attitudes toward work and time are essential aspects of social structure and function, and that the study of such attitudes offers a useful tool for the historian who wishes to examine the societies in which they develop."--Preface, page xii

ISBN:

0226470806
9780226470801
0226470814 (paperback)
9780226470818 (paperback)

Subject:

Social history Medieval, 500-1500.
Civilization, Medieval.
Time Sociological aspects.
Work Social aspects.
Histoire sociale 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Civilisation médiévale.
Temps Aspect sociologique.
Travail Aspect social.
Social history Medieval
Social conditions Medieval, 500-1500.
Medieval civilization.
European civilization, ca 400-1500

Added entries:

Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
Time, work, and culture in the Middle Ages.

Time, work, and culture in the Middle Ages

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3278
Call No.: 6392; ID:87-B11781
Status: Available