Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), for many years director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, was a highly influential member of the Annales School. Among his other works are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages and Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology.
M. B. DeBevoise translates from the French and Italian in every branch of scholarship.
We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different view. In this, his last book, he argues persuasively that many of the innovations we associate with the Renaissance have medieval roots, and that many of the most deplorable aspects of medieval society continued to flourish during the Renaissance. We should instead view Western civilization as undergoing several "renaissances" following the fall of Rome, over the course of a long Middle Ages that lasted until the mid-eighteenth century.
While it is indeed necessary to divide history into periods, Le Goff maintains, the meaningful continuities of human development only become clear when historians adopt a long perspective. Genuine revolutions―the shifts that signal the end of one period and the beginning of the next―are much rarer than we think.
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評分轉載自:文匯學人微信公眾號 ◇中國讀者對曆史分期問題不會感到陌生。共和國“十七年”史學的“五朵金花”中,分期問題居首。這不是偶然的。正如勒高夫所言:“新時期的一種觀念總是反對前一時期的觀念,後者總被認為是黑暗的階段並理應讓位於光明。” ◇ 在勒高夫看來,歐洲曆...
評分2018-03-16 10:06 來源:上海書評 http://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2029362 一 “滾滾長江東逝水,浪花淘盡英雄。是非成敗轉頭空,青山依舊在,幾度夕陽紅。”明代文學傢楊慎這首著名的《臨江仙》道盡瞭曆史滄桑,曆來為人們吟誦,後來成瞭《三國演義》的捲首詞...
評分轉載自:文匯學人微信公眾號 ◇中國讀者對曆史分期問題不會感到陌生。共和國“十七年”史學的“五朵金花”中,分期問題居首。這不是偶然的。正如勒高夫所言:“新時期的一種觀念總是反對前一時期的觀念,後者總被認為是黑暗的階段並理應讓位於光明。” ◇ 在勒高夫看來,歐洲曆...
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