..". qualities of careful scholarship, lucidity, and vision make
this collection eminently accessible to the intelligent general
reader and an extremely useful teaching text." . The Historian
"The essays collected in this volume ... have been lovingly
compiled by Herlihy's colleague ... Molho, whose introduction links
the adventurous curiosity of the historian to the generosity of the
man ... pleasant as well as instructive ... Students in particular
will profit from accompanying an accomplished master through his
restless search for new techniques and new questions to address ...
a typological guide through the great document collections of late
medieval Italy." . Labor History
Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of
History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and
best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author
of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century
Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in
collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs
familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988).
For the last dozen or so years of his life, Herlihy launched a
series of ambitious projects, on the history ofwomen and the
family, and on the collective behavior of social groups in medieval
Europe. While he completed two important books - on the family
(1985) and on women's work (1991) - he did not find the time to
bring these other major projects to a conclusion.
This volume contains essays he wrote after 1978. They convey a
sense of the enormous intellectual energy and great erudition that
characterized David Herlihy's scholarly career. They also chart a
remarkable historian's intellectual trajectory, as he searched for
new and better ways of asking a set of simple and basic questions
about the history of the family, the institution within which the
vast majority of Europeans spent so much of their lives. Because of
his qualities as a scholar and a teacher, during his relatively
brief career Herlihy was honored with Presidencies of the four
major scholarly associations with which he was affiliated: the
Catholic Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of America,
the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Historical
Association.
Anthony Molho is Munro Goodwin Wilkinson Professor of European
History at Brown University, and has written several works on the
social, political, and economic history of late medieval and early
modern Italy.
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