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050 00 $aCT114$b.C36 1994
082 00 $a940.1/092/2$220
100 1 $aCantor, Norman F.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030857
245 10 $aMedieval lives :$beight charismatic men and women of the Middle Ages /$cNorman F. Cantor.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9403
300 $axviii, 197 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn his new book Norman F. Cantor, the brilliant author of Inventing the Middle Ages and The Civilization of the Middle Ages, profiles eight men and women who are both representative figures of the Middle Ages and led extraordinary lives.
520 8 $aAmong them are Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, often called the founder of the Middle Ages and author of the first modern autobiography; Cardinal Humbert of Lorraine, the chief political theorist of the medieval papacy; and Robert Grosseteste, the founder of experimental science and the Franciscan opponent of Thomas Aquinas. Of the women Cantor profiles, Helena Augusta, the mother of fourth-century Roman emperor Constantine, played a significant role in the formation of medieval religious culture. Hildegard of Bingen was a Benedictine abbess who developed a form of personal visionary mysticism and feminist theory.
520 8 $aThe third of Cantor's principal women subjects, Eleanor of Aquitaine, was the most famous of medieval queens and had an enormous influence both on politics and society and the arts and literature of her time.
520 8 $aNorman F. Cantor's approach to these profiles is almost novelistic: he has invented conversations, based closely on a century of medieval scholarship and on the original sources, which thrust the reader immediately into the lives of his subjects, their colleagues, and friends, and give an immediacy to medieval life rarely encountered in conventional biography.
520 8 $aCantor makes not only comprehensible but exciting to the reader the crises and crosscurrents of medieval cultural history. In a manner rarely achieved, he gets the reader inside the psyche of medieval women and men and makes us fully empathize with their aspirations, triumphs, anxieties, and disappointments.
650 0 $aBiography$yMiddle Ages, 500-1500.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014154
650 0 $aCivilization, Medieval.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026463
650 0 $aMiddle Ages.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085001
852 00 $bglx$hCT114$i.C36 1994