Chivalrous Society

Informationen zum Autor Georges Duby (October 7! 1919 – December 3! 1996) was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s until his death in 1996. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations  Preface  1 Medieval Society  2 The Evolution of Judicial Institutions  3 Lineage! Nobility and Knighthood  4 The History and Sociology of the Medieval West  5 The Origins of a System of Social Classification  6 The Nobility in Medieval France  7 Youth in Aristocratic Society  8 Laity and the Peace of God  9 The Structure of Kinship and Nobility  10 French Genealogical Literature  11 The Origins of Knighthood  12 The Diffusion of Cultural Patterns in Feudal Society  13 The Transformation of the Aristocracy  14 The Manor and the Peasant Economy  15 The History of Systems of Values  Sources  Index

Product details

• Authors: Georges Duby, Duby Georges
• Assisted by: Cynthia Postan (Translation), Postan Cynthia (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.1981
• EAN: 9780520042711
• ISBN: 978-0-520-04271-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: customs and traditions