Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West / Edition 1

by Georges Duby, Cynthia Postan

Overview

In 1961 Georges Duby wrote what is still the best overview of European medieval rural history to date. Originally published in French and first translated into English in 1968, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West brings together local research on the countryside and its economic life and distills from it lessons that apply much more widely. With this edition, the University of Pennsylvania Press brings this modern classic back into print.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812216745
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	01/29/1998
Series:	The Middle Ages Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	632
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Georges Duby (1919-1996) was one of the foremost medievalists and a prolific author. His many books include The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, The Chivalrous Society, History Continues, and The Age of Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420.

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."

Speculum

"A masterpiece."—Speculum

"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."—Speculum

From the Publisher

**** A new printing of USC Press's 1968 translation from the French. Printed now on alkaline paper. A classic of agrarian and economic history, this book traces the agricultural evolution of the medieval west. Cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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