Gurevich, Aaron

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GUREVICH, Aaron

GUREVICH, Aaron. Russian, b. 1924. Genres: History. Career: Pedagogical Institute, Tver, U.S.S.R., lecturer, 1950-63, professor of history, 1963-66; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, research professor at Institute of Philosophy, 1966-69, and Institute of General History, 1969-. Moscow University, professor, 1989-; lecturer at universities in Germany, the United States, France, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and Israel. Publications: IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Categories of Medieval Culture, 1972, 2nd ed., 1984, trans., 1985; Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of Belief and Perception, 1981, trans., 1988; Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages, 1992; The Individual in Medieval Europe, 1995. IN RUSSIAN: Raids of the Vikings, 1966; Free Peasantry of Feudal Norway, 1967; Problemi genezisa feodalisma v Zapadnoi Evrope (title means On the Origins of Feudalism), 1970; History and Saga, 1972; Norwegian Society in the Early Middle Ages: Social Structure and Culture, 1977; Edda and Saga, 1978; The Culture and Society of Western Europe as Seen by Contemporaries: The Thirteenth-Century Exempla, 1989; The Medieval World: Culture of the Silent Majority, 1990; Historical Synthesis and the Annales School, 1993. OTHER: Historical Knowledge and Historical Anthropology (in Japanese), 1990; Antropologia e cultura medievale: Lezioni romane (in Italian), 1991. Contributor to periodicals worldwide. Address: Malo-Moskovskaja 3, App. 100, 129164 Moscow, Russia.