"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
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