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In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. While most histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions of the few who wielded power and stress how different medieval people were from us, Fossier concentrates on the other nine-tenths of humanity in the period and concludes that "medieval man is us.? Drawing on a broad range of evidence, Fossier describes how medieval men and women encountered, coped with, and understood the basic material facts of their lives. We learn how people related to agriculture, animals, the weather, the forest, and the sea; how they used alcohol and drugs; and how they buried their dead. But The Axe and the Oath is about much more than simply the material demands of life. We also learn how ordinary people experienced the social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of medieval life, from memory and imagination to writing and the Church. The result is a sweeping new vision of the Middle Ages that will entertain and enlighten readers.… (más)
Skip this one. I very nearly didn't get beyond the preface, where the author writes "One last word: I have borrowed nearly everything from others, and I do not cite them." There are no citations at all, no bibliography, not even an essay on selected sources. I decided to read on, though ... and shouldn't have. No good from start to finish, and the last few lines are just about as bad as the first ("Simplistic for the erudite, confusing for the student, obscure for the non-reader? I don't know; I felt like saying all this, and that is enough"). GAH. ( )
I bought this book based on the description and blurbs on the back. When I began to read it, I found something more like a philosophical examination of some kind of generic types than a description of "ordinary like in the Middle Ages". It was a total waste of money, in my opinion. I have other books that actually deserve the subtitle. This one does not, in my opinion, but there are obviously people who like this sort of thing. ( )
Información procedente del Conocimiento común francés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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Información procedente del Conocimiento común francés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Avant-propos
« Nous autres, gens du Moyen Âge, savons tout cela », fait dire à l'un de ses personnages un auteur du siècle passé. [...]
Première partie L'homme et le monde
Voici donc un être animé, vivant normalement dans un milieu aérien, essentiellement composé d'oxygène, d'azote et d'hydrogène. [...]
1 L'homme nu
Que le lecteur veuille bien à présent – exercice difficile j'en conviens – s'abstraire un temps des schémas de tradition, et qu'il tente de décrire et d'évaluer l'être humain. [...]
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It is useless to accuse me of mixing up centuries, of being content with simplistic generalizations, of eliminating nuances of time or place, of using deceptive words and impure sources. I know all this and assume responsibility for it. At least this explains why everything that is indisputably in motion—the political, the economic, and the social scale—has been systematically thrust aside as mere vicissitudes in the history of men. (Conclusion, para. 3)
I have swept through many domains in this essay, some of which are not very familiar to me. What does this mean for my eventual reader? In truth, I am not quite sure whom I am addressing. These pages are not intended for an erudite person who specializes in matrimonial law or in the study of alimentation, and even less if he or she is a specialist in Christian piety and dogma. I can hear their protests already. But I make a number of allusions to works, people, and events that are not in the domain of collective memory, even of the “enlightened reader.” (Conclusion, para. 5)
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I don’t know; I felt like saying all this, and that is enough.
In The Axe and the Oath, one of the world's leading medieval historians presents a compelling picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people. Writing for general readers, Robert Fossier vividly describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. While most histories of the period focus on the ideas and actions of the few who wielded power and stress how different medieval people were from us, Fossier concentrates on the other nine-tenths of humanity in the period and concludes that "medieval man is us.? Drawing on a broad range of evidence, Fossier describes how medieval men and women encountered, coped with, and understood the basic material facts of their lives. We learn how people related to agriculture, animals, the weather, the forest, and the sea; how they used alcohol and drugs; and how they buried their dead. But The Axe and the Oath is about much more than simply the material demands of life. We also learn how ordinary people experienced the social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of medieval life, from memory and imagination to writing and the Church. The result is a sweeping new vision of the Middle Ages that will entertain and enlighten readers.
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