Duby presents a fascinating account of medieval marriage among the aristocracy of northern France, emphasizing the main features of their marriage strategies, the maintenance of the 'lineage, ' and the making of good marriages. -- Journal of Ecclesiastical History. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History.

In 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first translated into English in 1968, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West brings together local research on the countryside and its economic life and distills from it lessons that apply much more widely. With this edition, the University of Pennsylvania Press brings this modern classic back into print.

In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage.


From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the priest and knights who wrote about them.


The first section outlines...

This is an engaging account of the lives of high-born women in the Middle Ages, by one of the foremost historians in Europe.

Focusing on France in the twelfth century, Duby recreates the image of women that the men of high society made for themselves. Using written evidence from the period - official texts written by men, all intended for public consumption and reading aloud - he tells the story of six very different women. These women - fictional and real, religious and secular - range from famous historical figures such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Héloïse, through...

In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century women. Georges Duby bases his account here on a twelfth-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died, and the roles they had played in the history of their lineage.


From these genealogical works a vivid picture emerges of the lives these women led, the values they held, and the way in which they were viewed by the priest and knights who wrote about them.


The first section outlines...

This volume is concerned with the relationship between women and the Church, examining the ways in which women were viewed from a Christian point of view. By the 12th century, the Church had begun to take the role and expectations of women seriously, and the clerical writings discussed in this work address the particular issues that emerged from this development.

Duby geht es in seiner Darstellung der mittelalterlichen Kunst nicht um Ikonographie oder Stilgeschichte. Er stellt das Kunstwerk in den sozialen und geistesgeschichtlichen Rahmen seiner Zeit. Wenngleich die knstlerische Produktion die Perspektive dieser Arbeiten stets bestimmt, gehrt der grere Raum doch der Darstellung der sozialen, konomischen, politischen und kulturellen Entwicklungen, in deren Rahmen sich die Kunst, deren Brennpunkt die Kathedrale bildet, entfaltete.

Im Gespräch mit dem Philosophen Guy Lardreau gibt Duby hier Auskunft über seine Vorstellungen von Geschichte und über die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der Geschichtswissenschaft; er umreißt seine Sicht der Entwicklungen in der historischen Wissenschaft dieses Jahrhunderts, erläutert die Motive und Grundgedanken seiner wichtigsten Studien und benennt die persönlichen Motive, die seine Arbeit geleitet haben.