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Georges Duby
Georges Duby, one of this century’s great medieval historians, has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imagination William Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knight extraordinaire, the flower of chivalry…
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Although individuals create works of art, these works are also the product of a particular time and place. In The Age of the Cathedrals,French historian Georges Duby offers a…
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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…
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In this book, now available in paperback, he examines the history of France from the rise of the Capetians in the mid–tenth century to the execution of Joan of Arc…
An account of the lives of high-born women in the Middle Ages. Focusing on 12th-century France, the book recreates the image of women that the men of high society made…
This is the second of three volumes exploring the lives of 12th-century women. Georges Duby bases his account on a 12th-century genre which commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had…
Examines the ways in which women were viewed from a Christian point of view. By the twelfth century, the Church had begun to take the role and expectations of women…
Medieval historian, Georges Duby, returns to one of the central themes of his work - the relationship between art and society. He traces the evolution of artistic forms from the…
The author here returns to one of the central themes of his work - the relationship between art and society. He traces the evolution of artistic forms from the fifth…
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Steffen Seischab
Der franzoesische Mediavist Georges Duby (1919-1996), Mitglied der beruhmten Gruppe der Annales und einer der fuhrenden Vertreter der histoire des mentalites, zahlt zu den einflussreichsten Historikern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das…
Professor Georges Duby
This account of 12th-century women is based on the genre that commemorated the virtues of noblewomen who had died and the role they came to play in the history of…
Drawing on clerical writings from the 12th century, this text describes how women were thought to embody particular sins such as sorcery and disobedience. It analyzes Eve’s role in man’s…
Captures the artistic legacy of Paris, the famous French capital.
Georges Duby in productivity and originality stands at the forefront of active medievalists in France and in the world. This collection contains 15 of his short articles. It also includes…
An examination of the lives of prominent 12th-century French women as well as popular female literary figures of the time. Focusing on medieval notions of women and love, the author…
Simon Denninger
Die Mentalitatsgeschichte als Gegenpol zur Ereignisgeschichte hat die historische und mediavistische Forschung gleichsam gespalten wie bereichert. Obwohl inzwischen global etabliert, geben ihre Grundervater, die, Annales d'histoire economique et sociale’, kurz…
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universitat Karlsruhe (TH) (Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Gruppe der franzoesischen Annales ist heutzutage im historischen…
The techniques and insights of modern social science are applied to early medieval history in this extraordinary work. Professor Duby offers a chronological account of the European economy from its…
The second volume of A History of Private Life contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This secret epic aims to construct a vivid…
An overview of European medieval rural history. This title brings together local research on the countryside and its economic life and distills from it lessons that apply much more widely.
First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.
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Readers will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume…
Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I-a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable…
This fifth volume in the world-acclaimed series brings the history of women up to the present, placing it in the context of momentous events and profound social changes that have…
This volume of the world-acclaimed series covers the period between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive…
Drawing on myriad sources, this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women. Twelve historians examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition…
This five-volume series sets before us a panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day. Volume I offers insight into more than twenty centuries of Greek and Roman…
This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity…
This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.
