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Welcome to the Middle Ages

Brand: Michel Zink
Collection: The Little Giant Books Collection
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Product Code:: 2148-01
ISBN: 978-619-01-0256-4
SKU: 05.0123

Year: 23-05-2018
Translation: from French: Stoyan Atanasov
Pages: 240
Size: 120/165 мм
Weight: 0.386 kg
Collection: Колекция "Малките големи книги"
Cover Type: Hardcover
Genre: Researches, Middle Ages, Christianity, Theory of Literature, Culturology

Michel Zink

Michel Zink, born in 1945, is a professor of French and Occitan medieval literature at the Collège de France since 1994. Since 2000, he is a member of and, since 2011, also the eternal secretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (Institut de France). After his studies at the Ecole normale supérieure (Paris) and at the Sorbonne (1964-1968), he graduated in classics in 1967. He then…

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Michel Zink invites us to immerse ourself in the adventurous Middle-Age Times. Through the imaginary, the wonderful, the novels, the chronicles, the songs and the legends, he offers a journey from the 9th century to today, from the knights of the round table to the TV series Camelot. These times are both familiar and distant. Who was King Arthur? Did Roland really sound his horn in Roncevaux? Why did the names of troubadours and demanding poets have been adopted by hippies guitarists? Was the Grail similar to the version in The Raiders of The Lost Ark or Monty Python movies? Will Tristan and Iseult's love still make sense today? Have there ever been better praises of conjugal love than those written by Middle Age poets?

In Michel Zink's joyful, light and humorous company, we penetrate not only the Broceliande forest, but also the world of The Novel of the Rose.