Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

by Jacques Le Goff

Book Overview

In this pioneering work Jacques Le Goff examines both the creation of the medieval universities in the great cities of the European High Middle Ages, and the linked origins of the intellectuals - the first Europeans since the Classic Age to owe their livelihoods to their teaching and accumulation of knowledge. The author's argument is that the intellectuals, Abelard most typically, were a new category of person (neither monk nor knight) with a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631170782
• ISBN13: 9780631170785
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"