Time, Work & Culture in the Middle Ages

Jacques Le Goff is a prominent figure in the tradition of French medieval scholarship, profoundly influenced by the *Annales* school, notably, Bloch, Febvre, and Braudel, and by the ethnographers and anthropologists Mauss, Dumézil, and Lévi-Strauss. In building his argument for "another Middle Ages" (*un autre moyen âge*), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective *mentalité* from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.