The Medieval Imagination

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 Keen, New York Review of Books

"The whole book turns on a fascinating blend of the brutally materialistic and the generously imaginative."—Tom Shippey, London Review of Books

"The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work . . . demand to be experienced."—M. T. Clanchy, Times Literary Supplement

• Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
• The Birth of Purgatory
• The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420
• Your Money or Your Life: Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
• Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500
• Medieval Callings
• The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface
• Must We Divide History Into Periods? (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
• The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted