Dumézil

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. …

Au moment où il achevait sa monumentale Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses, Mircea Eliade avait souhaité réunir en un seul volume le résultat d'une vie consacrée à l'histoire comparée des religions. …

This book probes the narratives of poets who are exiled, tried or executed for their satire. Aesop, fabulist and riddle warrior, is assimilated to the pharmakos–the wretched human scapegoat who is expelled from the city or killed in response to a crisis–after satirizing the Delphians…