{"product_id":"understanding-the-middle-ages-9780851159492","title":"Understanding the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis radical study traces the transformation of ideas in western Europe during more than one thousand years between the fifth and sixteenth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKleinschmidt approaches the western European middle ages as a modern anthropologist would approach analysis of a remote culture. His objectives have something in common with Le Goff, as he seeks to identify with medieval society and culture without the encumbrance of later historical attitudes.\u003cbr\u003e                 This radical study traces the transformation of ideas in western Europe during more than one thousand years between the fifth and sixteenth centuries. Its central concern is to interpret and understand changing attitudes towards time, space, the human body, human and social relationships, productivity and distribution, travel, modes of thought, attitudes to the past, ageversus youth, war, faith, and social and political order.\u003cbr\u003e  Illustrations and narrative work together in this book to present medieval culture as one shaped by the spoken word and the visual image. Drawing extensively from awide range of primary source material, the breadth and originality of Kleinschmidt's study will have an important influence on scholarly perception of the middle ages, as a period of continual change and continually changing attitudes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     HARALD KLEINSCHMIDT teaches in the College of International Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.","brand":"Harald Kleinschmidt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280355668219,"sku":"9780851159492","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9780851159492_e04ec197-4285-4387-85f6-6cbc97995392.jpg?v=1772483121","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/understanding-the-middle-ages-9780851159492","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}