Chivalrous Society

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-04271-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

"Georges Duby in productivity and originality stands at the forefront of active medievalists in France and in the world. The present collection contains 15 of his short articles, most but not all of which appear in English for the first time. Of capital interest are his several essays that explore the evolution of nobility, knighthood, the noble family, and the ideals of chivalry across the central Middle Ages. They are both a summary and the point of departure of current research into the medieval aristocracy. Indispensable."--Choice"[A] valuable collection. The title is exact. But it is no coffee-table account of courtly life eked out with colour photos of an author's subsidized holiday. It is an interlocking series of studies about the structure of families, the nature of knighthood and nobility, changes of attitudes towards kinship, and the influence of new clerical ideas. Duby shows us noble families becoming specifically knightly, acquiring heritable toponymies, clustering round the patrimony, emphasizing the male line and the eldest born save when the female is an heiress, and in the course of time forming a homogeneous noble class whose members by St. Louis's age, whatever else they are, are gentilhommes. Passion is not spent, but canalized against the enemies of Christ. The discrete themes of undergraduate medieval history are in reality one complex whole: land, wives, dynasty war, celibacy, vows, pilgrimage, crusade, nobility."--Times Literary Supplement"Duby's researches in medieval agrarian and social history have established him as one of the leading international authorities in those areas. This volume brings together 15 of his most significant articles. The book represents the best of 'the new history."'--Library Journal

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duby, Georges

Weitere Mitwirkende

Postan, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.