"The Other Middle Ages" is a collection of articles by the outstanding French historian Jacques Le Goff, dedicated to the history, culture and mentality of the European Middle Ages. CONTENTS: PREFACE 6 PART I TIME AND LABOR The Middle Ages Michelet 13 The Middle Ages: the time of the church and the time of the merchant 36 The time of labor during the period of “crisis” XIV centuries: from medieval times to modern times 49Notes on the tripartite society, monarchical ideology and economic awakening in Christianity of the 9th-12th centuries 58Honest and dishonest professions in the medieval West 63Peasants and rural society in the literature of the early Middle Ages (V-VI centuries) 75PART II WORK AND VALUE SYSTEMSExpenditure at the University of Padua in the 15th century 85Craft and profession in medieval manuals for confessors 95How did the medieval university understand itself? 109Universities and state power in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 120PART III SCIENTIFIC CULTURE AND FOLK CULTUREClerical culture and folk traditions in the Merovingian civilization 135Church culture and folk culture in the Middle Ages: St. Marcellus of Paris and the Dragon 142The Medieval West and the Indian Ocean: the Magical Horizon of Dreams 169Dreams in the Culture and Collective Psychology of the Medieval West 180Melusine - Progenitor and Opener of the New 184PART IV TO HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe Historian and the Everyday Man 200The Symbolic Ritual of Vassalage 211NOTES 263