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, Dum?zil, and L?vi-Strauss. In building his argument for ''another Middle Ages'' (un autre moyen ?ge), Le Goff documents the emergence of the collective mentalit? from many sources with scholarship both imaginative and exact.