A prolific medievalist of international renown, Le Goff is sometimes considered the principal heir and continuator of the movement known as Annales School (École des Annales), founded by his intellectual mentor Marc Bloch. Le Goff succeeded Fernand Braudel in 1972 at the head of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and was succeeded by François Furet in 1977. Along with Pierre Nora, he was one of the leading figure of New History (Nouvelle histoire) in the 1970s. Since then, he has dedicated himself to studies on the historical anthropology of Western Europe during medieval times. He is well-known for contesting the very name of "Middle Ages" and its chronology, highlighting achievements of this period and variations inside it, in particular by attracting attention to the Renaissance of the 12th century.
Series
Books
Medieval Callings
1987
The Medieval World
1977
Il meraviglioso e il quotidiano nell'Occidente medievale
1983
Por Amor às Cidades
1997
The Devil's Dung
Money in the Middle Ages
2010
Medieval Civilization 400-1500
1964
The Birth of Purgatory
1981
Il Medioevo raccontato da Jacques Le Goff
1996
Un long Moyen âge
2006
Mercaderes y banqueros de la Edad Media
1956
Must We Divide History Into Periods?
2014
My Quest for the Middle Ages
2003
Héros et Merveilles du Moyen-Age
2004
Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
1956
Le Moyen âge expliqué en images
1999
Une histoire du corps au Moyen âge
2003
The Medieval Imagination
1985
The Faces of the Middle Ages
2012
In Search of Sacred Time
Jacobus de Voragine and The Golden Legend
2011
Uma breve história da Europa
1996
Saint Louis
1996
Saint Francis of Assisi
1997
Your Money or Your Life
Economy and Religion in the Middle Ages
1986
History and Memory
1982
The Birth of Europe
2003
La Baja Edad Media
1965
Intellectuals in the Middle Ages
1957
