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THE MEDIEVAL WEST, FROM ALERIC TO LEONARD 400-1450.
CHANDELIER Joël, CORNETTE Joël (dir).

THE MEDIEVAL WEST, FROM ALERIC TO LEONARD 400-1450.

Belin
€49,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25141
Format 17 x 24 cm
Détails 700 p., Paperback.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782701183299
Praised by the Romantics, scorned by the humanists, the Middle Ages are sometimes judged as a contemptible foil, sometimes considered as an invigorating source of inspiration and escape. But which Middle Ages are we talking about? The one that arose on the ruins of the Roman world, building an original society, a synthesis of ancient, Germanic and Christian heritages? The one of knights, peasants and clerics, with their imposing cathedrals that still today magnify the landscape of many European cities? Or the one of trading cities, flourishing culture and the economic and territorial expansion of the West? Between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, the Western Middle Ages covered a thousand years and embraced an immense territory, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from the British Isles to Central Europe. Far from being confined to a representation of a world frozen in large, supposedly homogeneous groups, the reader will discover the richness and diversity of this essential period, and will be able to appreciate the way in which it has influenced, and continues to influence, the history and imagination of the West. Some one hundred and fifty iconographic documents and forty original maps illuminate this space-time bounded by the emblematic figures of Alaric, leader of the Visigoths conqueror of the Roman Empire, and Leonardo da Vinci, a genius both medieval and modern, who embodies the effervescence of an era of fertile transition.
Praised by the Romantics, scorned by the humanists, the Middle Ages are sometimes judged as a contemptible foil, sometimes considered as an invigorating source of inspiration and escape. But which Middle Ages are we talking about? The one that arose on the ruins of the Roman world, building an original society, a synthesis of ancient, Germanic and Christian heritages? The one of knights, peasants and clerics, with their imposing cathedrals that still today magnify the landscape of many European cities? Or the one of trading cities, flourishing culture and the economic and territorial expansion of the West? Between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, the Western Middle Ages covered a thousand years and embraced an immense territory, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, from the British Isles to Central Europe. Far from being confined to a representation of a world frozen in large, supposedly homogeneous groups, the reader will discover the richness and diversity of this essential period, and will be able to appreciate the way in which it has influenced, and continues to influence, the history and imagination of the West. Some one hundred and fifty iconographic documents and forty original maps illuminate this space-time bounded by the emblematic figures of Alaric, leader of the Visigoths conqueror of the Roman Empire, and Leonardo da Vinci, a genius both medieval and modern, who embodies the effervescence of an era of fertile transition.