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Harald Kleinschmidt, Understanding the Middle Ages: the Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World.-

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online - approximately 598 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Harald Kleinschmidt, Understanding the Middle Ages: the Transformation of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World.-(book review)

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(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2000). xix + 401 pp. ISBN 0-85115-770-X. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00.

A manful struggle with Harald Kleinschmidt's opaque introduction having shed scant light, I was pleased to find that the corpus of the book presents largely convincing evidence that the author is widely and deeply acquainted with medieval documents and has thought profoundly about them. Moreover, his methodology, so ill described in the introduction, is coherent and well executed. It consists of anthropological/sociological analyses of a number of selected topics, but, unlike other such analyses (e.g. LeRoy...

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