201:"could easily stand alone as separate books together they comprise perhaps the most complete historiographic study of one historical person every attempted." He wrote that the historian "sometimes delightfully if not historically, tells us what he feels about Louis, even if he doesnât have evidence for that feeling. There are many repetitions, again something might expect in a study of such depth. Le Goff also seems to trust Joinville too much." However, Macy lauded the "detail and care of Le Goffâs careful study."
259:'s account. However, he said the historian misses opportunities to come to a closer understanding of Louis as an individual and ruler (e.g. "whether he was innovative or conservative, a master of detail or delegator of authority"). Bachrach wrote that Le Goff "limits himself to stringing together series of events in which Louis played a role."
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Unlike Macy, Jennifer R. Davis claimed that "Le Goff is far from a credulous reader" of
Joinville's account. She claimed that it is not a full biography of Louis as a king, centering more on his personality and the ideology surrounding his rulership than on his actual governance, but Davis called the
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Ellen E. Kittell wrote, "Le Goff has gone far beyond the mere biography of a canonized king; his history of St. Louis unfolds as the biography of France." Kittell criticized the translation but still lauded the book as "a standard against which other biographies will be measured." Carol J. Williams
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The lengthy book contains three parts. The first section is a traditional narrative of Louis from his birth to his canonization, while the second section is about the views of his contemporaries on him. The third section "locates Louis in both the spiritual and secular world of the day-to-day". Le
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as a "brilliant" biography. But Murray also stated that Le Goff "paints with a broad brush. Blanche is âinsufferable and frankly, odiousâ, Matthew Paris shows his âusual perversityâ, Louis âheld intellectuals in contemptâ (actually, he helped found the
Sorbonne). This broadness of brush hides
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Some reviewers were more moderate in their praise. Davis noted that there is controversy surrounding Le Goff's argument that the real Louis and the ideal models of conduct transmitted about Louis largely coincide. Jordan argued that the models obscure the view of the real Louis, comprising a
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a "wise and ruminative study his longest and most impressive book". He called the book's final question "a sincere warning against the naïveté that underlies so much of the lingering positivism of the historical profession."
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