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What was the most famous and influential book of the middle ages?
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∙ 10y ago
This is a difficult question to answer as there have been many influential books on the nature of the Middle Ages. You may have more luck getting an answer by looking at the different schools of historical thought and deciding for yourself what is the most influential, and then from there deciding upon the most appropriate book. However it is subjective to your opinion.
One of the key books however would be Marc Bloch's 'The Royal Touch: Monarchy and Miracles in France and England' which approaches the royal power to heal scrofula in the middle ages. The methodology used to explore the theme therein is what made the book so ground-breaking: Bloch looks at the historical information from the ground up: "Why", he asks, "did people believe the kings could perform this miracle?" I'm paraphrasing of course, but the point is he was less interested in the high politics that previous historians had obsessed over, and was more interested in getting to grips with the social background of the period and the average person who lived in the Middle Ages. Historian's since have taken this, and ideas of other authors of the Annale school, into consideration in the decades since.
Hope that helps as a starting point!
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∙ 14y agoLa Chanson de Roland ( the Song of Roland) remains one of the most studied medieval epic poems. This is the story of Roland, nephew to Charlemagne, King of France. The army is dispatched to Spain to fight invading Moors. As the army heads home, Roland is attacked. He had been given a horn to sound in time of trouble, but he blows his horn too late for help to arrive. This poem is not historical truth, but this tale remains one of the great examples of early French literature. Another one of the greatest works in all of literature was written in Italy in the Middle Ages by Dante. His Divine Comedy was written in 1321 and his first of 3 volumes, the Inferno, is probably the best known and describes the afterlife for the wicked. Medieval England had the adventures of King Arthur and his knights and this was penned in French in the work called La Morte d'Arthur (Death of Arthur).
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