Böcker av Georges Duby

In this volume Georges Duby - member of the Academie Francaise and one of the preeminent medieval scholars of our time - addresses the theme of love and marriage in the Middle Ages. These essays enrich Duby's position as the virtual progenitor and unequalled master of medieval social history. Rather than charting the evolution of love as a mere history of feelings, passions, and mentalities independent of or isolated from the history of other components of social education, Duby places this evolution in the material context of social relationships and daily life. Examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages, Duby shows the Middle Ages to be male-dominated. Women were regarded as symbols, as figures of temptation who paradoxically had no desires of their own. Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism - both bastions of masculinity. Duby also reflects on general issues in the writing of cultural history, on the history of pain and heresy, and gives a personal view of the state of historical research in France over recent generations. He argues that the rapid growth of interest in the history of marriage and the family reflects contemporary disquiet stemming from crises in the familiar structures of late twentieth-century society. Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is the ideal entree into Duby's thinking about marriage and the diversities of love, spousal decorum, family structure, and their cultural context in bodily and spiritual values. It will be of great interest to students in social and cultural history, in medieval andearly modern history, and in women's studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the nature of social life in the Middle Ages.

Frontmatter -- I. Recherches sur l'évolution des institutions judiciaires pendant le Xe et le XIe siècle dans le Sud de la Bourgogne -- II. Le budget de l'abbaye de Cluny entre 1080 et 1155. Économie domaniale et économie monétaire -- III. Géographie ou chronologie du servage ? Note sur les « servi » en Forez et en Maçonnais du Xe au XIIe siècle -- IV. Un inventaire des profits de la seigneurie clunisienne à la mort de Pierre le Vénérable -- V. La féodalité ? Une mentalité médiévale -- VI. Les villes du Sud-Est de la Gaule du VIIIe au XIe siècle -- VII. Le grand domaine de la fin du moyen âge en France -- VIII. La noblesse dans la France médiévale. Une enquête à poursuivre -- IX. La seigneurie et l'économie paysanne. Alpes du Sud, 1338 -- X. Les chanoines réguliers et la vie économique des XIe et xne siècles -- XI. Les « jeunes » dans la société aristocratique dans la France du Nord-Ouest au XIIe siècle -- XII. Les laïcs et la paix de Dieu -- XIII. Le problème des techniques agricoles -- XIV. Recherches récentes sur la vie rurale en Provence au XIVe siècle -- XV. Structures de parenté et noblesse dans la France du Nord aux xie et XIIe siècles -- XVI. Remarques sur la 1 ittérature généalogique en France aux XIe et XIIe siècles -- XVII. La vulgarisation des modèles culturels dans la société féodale -- XVIII. Démographie et villages désertés -- XIX. Les origines de la chevalerie -- XX. Situation de la noblesse en France an début du xme siècle -- XXI. Histoire et sociologie de l'Occident médiéval. Résultats et recherches -- XXII. Les sociétés médiévales. Une approche d'ensemble -- XXIII. Le monachisme et l'économie rurale -- XXIV. Lignage, noblesse et chevalerie au XIIe siècle dans la région mâconnaise. Une révision -- Table des matières

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 primitive beginnings, through a period when an extensive trading community developed, to an era when circulation of money and urban growth came to overshadow agricultural activities. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of the countryside, particularly the French countryside, he has authoritatively identified the moving forces behind economic behavior and economic growth in the early Middle Ages.

This strong stand did much to rationalize the institution of marriage and establish guidelines for the legitimacy of heirs.

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 several essays that explore the evolution of nobility, knighthood, the noble family, and the ideals of chivalry across the central Middle Ages.

A sumptuous artistic tribute to the city of light, this hardcover, slipcased volume brings Paris to life in paintings that range from the medieval to the modern.