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The Birth of Europe
The Making of Europe
Series Editor: Jacques Le Goff
The Making of Europe
series is the result of a unique collaboration between five
European publishers – Beck in Germany, Blackwell in Great Britain and the
United States, Critica in Spain, Laterza in Italy and le Seuil in France. Each
book will be published in all five languages. The scope of the series is broad,
encompassing the history of ideas as well as of societies, nations, and states to
produce informative, readable, and provocative treatments of central themes in
the history of the European peoples and their cultures.
Also published in this series
The European City*
Leonardo Benevolo
Women in European History
Gisela Bock
The Rise of Western Christendom:
Triumph and Diversity 200–1000 ad
Second edition
Peter Brown
The European Renaissance
Peter Burke
Europe and Islam
Franco Cardini
The Search for the Perfect Language
Umberto Eco
The Distorted Past: A Reinterpretation of
Europe
Josep Fontana
The European Family
Jack Goody
The Origins of European Individualism
Aaron Gurevich
The Enlightenment
Ulrich Im Hof
The Population of Europe
Massimo Livi Bacci
Europe and the Sea*
Michel Mollat du Jourdin
The Culture of Food*
Massimo Montanari
The First European Revolution,
900–1200
R. I. Moore
Religion and Society in Modern Europe
Ren´ R´mond
The Peasantry of Europe*
Werner R¨ sener
The Birth of Modern Science
Paolo Rossi
States, Nations and Nationalism
Hagen Schulze
European Revolutions 1492–1992
Charles Tilly
* Title out of print
The Birth of Europe
Jacques Le Goff
Translated by Janet Lloyd
# 2005 by Jacques Le Goff
English translation # 2005 by Janet Lloyd
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First published 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Le Goff, Jacques, 1924–
[Europe est-elle n´e au moyen ˆge. English]
The Birth of Europe / by Jacques Le Goff; translated by Janet Lloyd.
p. cm.—(The making of Europe)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-631-22888-8 (hardcover: alk. paper)
1. Middle Ages—History. 2. Civilization, Medieval. 3. Europe—History—476–1492.
I. Title. II. Series.
D117I42 2005
940.1—dc22
2004011509
A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
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