Aron Gurevich

Aaron Yakovlevich Gurevich (Russian Арон Яковлевич Гуревич; born May 12, 1924 in Moscow, † August 5, 2006 ) was a Russian cultural theorist and medievalist.

He studied history in his hometown and received his PhD in 1950. He was a senior researcher at the Institute of General History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

Writings (selection )

  • The worldview of medieval people. VEB Verlag art, Dresden 1978.
  • Medieval popular culture: problems for research. VEB Verlag art, Dresden 1986.
  • The individual in medieval Europe. Beck, Munich 1994.
  • Heavenly and earthly life: imagery of non-literate people in the 13th century. The example. Publisher of Art, Dresden 1996.
  • Silent witnesses of the Middle Ages: the world and culture of ordinary people. Böhlau, Weimar et al In 1997.
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