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Saint Louis de Jacques Le Goff

Saint Louis

Autor Jacques Le Goff, Gareth Gollrad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 ian 2009

Descoperim aici nu doar o biografie istorică, ci o incursiune profundă în mintea unui rege care a definit apogeul puterii franceze în secolul al XIII-lea. Saint Louis este o lucrare monumentală care reușește să îl readucă la viață pe Ludovic al IX-lea, surprinzându-l în momentul în care comanda cea mai mare armată a Europei și gestiona cel mai bogat regat al creștinătății. Reținem modul în care Jacques Le Goff analizează fundamentul scolastic al domniei sale, transformând datele seci ale arhivelor într-o narațiune despre credință, putere și intelectualitate.

Considerăm că abordarea autorului este distinctivă prin refuzul de a se limita la cronologia politică. Complementar lucrării The Making of Saint Louis de M Cecilia Gaposchkin, unde accentul cade pe procesul ideologic de canonizare și consolidarea cultului regal, volumul lui Jacques Le Goff explorează dimensiunea umană și culturală a monarhului, încercând să deslușească dacă un rege poate fi cu adevărat un sfânt în exercițiul funcțiunii. Față de The Birth of Europe, unde autorul analiza structurile temporale largi, aici el aplică microscopul asupra unui singur individ pentru a valida teoria sa conform căreia Evul Mediu este o civilizație unică.

Deși cele aproape o mie de pagini pot părea intimidante, ritmul este susținut de erudiția fluidă a lui Jacques Le Goff. Stilul său transformă cercetarea riguroasă într-o experiență de lectură care depășește granițele academice, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care un lider și-a modelat epoca prin prisma convingerilor sale religioase și intelectuale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268033811
ISBN-10: 0268033811
Pagini: 980
Dimensiuni: 173 x 241 x 66 mm
Greutate: 1.56 kg
Ediția:1st Edition, Translated from French
Editura: MR – University of Notre Dame Press

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru pasionații de istorie medievală și biografie politică, această carte oferă o înțelegere nuanțată a celui mai influent monarh al secolului al XIII-lea. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra intersecției dintre sfințenie și guvernare, totul sub semnătura unuia dintre cei mai mari istorici ai lumii. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile identității culturale franceze și europene.

Despre autor

Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014) a fost un istoric francez de renume mondial, figură centrală a Școlii Annales și a „Noii Istorii”. Specializat în secolele XII-XIII, el a revoluționat studiul Evului Mediu, punând accent pe istoria mentalităților și a imaginarului colectiv. Opera sa vastă, care include titluri precum Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages sau The Birth of Europe, reflectă convingerea sa că perioada medievală a fost o etapă de o bogăție culturală extraordinară, independentă de tiparele antichității. A condus prestigioasa École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) între 1972 și 1977.

Descriere scurtă

“Life of a king, life of a saint, life of a man. In this work, Jacques LeGoff, one of the truly great medieval historians of our times, magisterially plumbs the depths of the fundamental contradiction of Saint Louis: is it possible to be both a king and a saint? St. Louis lies at the intersection of reasons of state and divine reason; he is an individual around whom LeGoff turns like a detective searching for an ever-elusive truth, that of a life and a legend inextricably intertwined.  A fine, eminently readable translation. “ —Robert J. Morrissey, University of Chicago
Canonized in 1297 as Saint Louis, King Louis IX of France (1214–1270) was the central figure of Christendom in the thirteenth century. He ruled when France was at the height of power; he commanded the largest army in Europe and controlled the wealthiest kingdom. Renowned for his patronage of the arts, Louis was equally famous for his decision to imitate the suffering Christ as a humbly attired, bearded penitent. 
Armed with the considerable resources of the nouvel historien, Jacques Le Goff mines existing materials about Saint Louis to forge a new historical biography of the king. Part of his ambitious project is to reconstruct the mental universe of the thirteenth century: Le Goff describes the scholastic and intellectual background of Louis’ reign and, most importantly, he discusses methodology and the interpretation of written sources—their composition, provenance, and reliability.  
 
Le Goff divides his unconventional biography into three parts. In the first, he gives us the contours of Louis’ life from birth to death in the usual context of family dynamics and genealogy, courtly and regional politics, and shifts in economic, social, and cultural life. In sifting through the historical accounts of the king’s life, Le Goff determines that it is Louis IX’s profound sense of moral and religious purpose—his desire to become the ideal Christian ruler—that colors his every action from boyhood on; it is also, for Le Goff, what renders contemporary accounts problematic and what necessitates further scrutiny.  
 
That dissection of sources occupies the second part. Le Goff’s intention is to pare away the layers of homily and anecdote produced by the king’s early biographers to discover the true Saint Louis. Questioning whether Saint Louis was merely the invention of his eulogists, Le Goff penetrates beyond the literary and hagiographical evidence to the human behind the legend. He brilliantly analyzes Louis’ progress toward his unique self-creation and its subsequent mythologizing. In the third part, Le Goff highlights the contradictions within Louis and his historical image that previous chroniclers have elided or overlooked. In the end, he leaves us with the saint, rather than the king, with all the paradoxes embedded in that role.

Recenzii

“. . . a warm and largely admiring portrait of a king in whom power and goodness do indeed form two sides of the same coin. . . . Le Goff’s Louis is cheerful, ardent, devout, intelligent but unintellectual, skillful yet uncomplicated, a man in tune with his age but able to transcend at least some of its limitations . . . this is a rich and generous book, crammed with a lifetime’s learning.” —The New York Review of Books

“Jacques Le Goff’s brilliant biography, Saint Louis, came out in French in 1996, and is now published in a readable English translation. Its publication gives Anglophones a book to set beside W.C. Jordan’s Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade (1979) and Jean Richard’s Saint Louis (1983, translated in 1992). . . . Le Goff excels in his knowledge of the biographical sources, which he subjects to close analysis, against the background—Le Goff’s home territory—of European mentalités.” —London Review of Books

“More than simply a biography of Louis IX of France, this magisterial work by a member of the Annales School of historiography is an examination of the historian's craft. . . . Le Goff argues convincingly that Louis, while still a medieval figure, was also one of the first moderns. He provides the scholarly apparatus lacking in Jean Richard's Saint Louis, the Crusading King of France . . . highly recommended for academic and larger public libraries.” —Library Journal

“In a massive piece of scholarship, Le Goff, doyen of French medievalists, plays the sleuth whose work results in more contradictions than clarity in the search for an integration of the three personae—king, saint, and man—of Louis IX (1214–1270). . . . Resolving to live with an inherently unstable and distorted historical figure hovering somewhere between memory, history, and legend, Le Goff thereby raises important questions about defining historical authenticity. Gollrad’s translation nicely preserves the lively and intimate prose of the French original (1996).” —Choice

“. . . Le Goff interweaves insightful and illuminating reflections on Louis’ personality. This interweaving of person, structures and representation takes Le Goff beyond the established historiography of Louis IX . . . [and] demonstrates how the historical biographer can legitimately evoke personality and psychology in a wider account of structures and discourses. . . it is a seminal text, and this welcome translation will render it available to a wider audience.” —English Historical Review

“Louis lives and walks through these pages. What Le Goff has given us is more than a biography; it is a work of literature. . . . Given the length of this book, many will be intimidated and will not take up its challenge. That is a pity, for Le Goff has much to offer here. There is no chapter that does not contain information and ideas that deserve to be discussed further.” —The Catholic Historical Review

Notă biografică

A prolific medievalist of international renown, Jacques Le Goff (1924- ) is the former director of studies at the L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Among his honors is the Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for History, bestowed in 2004 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to Le Goff for “fundamentally changing our view of the Middle Ages.” He was also among the recipients of the 2007 Dan David Prize in recognition of contributions to his discipline. Jacques Le Goff was awarded the prestigious Prix Gobert for Saint Louis by the Académie Française in 1996. This English translation includes the appendices, chronology, and genealogical tables from the French edition.