Edition: 2008
Pages: 186
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842066408
Pages: 186
Series: EL
ISBN: 9788842066408
Women in the Mirror of the Middle Ages
Eleanor of Aquitaine, lustful and double-crossing; Mary Magdalene, the repenting sinner; Heloise, rebellious and unruly; Isolde, innocent victim of a love filter. These are a few of the female figures that Georges Duby describes in this volume. «I wanted to see more clearly who those women who were called ladies because they had married a lord were, to know what destiny was allotted for them in their environment, in the great world, a the top of that brutal and refined society which we call feudal.»
From the introduction by the author.
From the introduction by the author.
The author
Georges Duby
Georges Duby (b. 1919 d. 1996) is one of the greatest historians of the Middle Ages. For over twenty years he taught at the Collège de France. Together with Michelle Perrot, he edited the five volumes of the History of Women in The West and Images of Women. With Philippe Ariès he edited the Private Life series.
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