The chivalrous society
By: Georges Duby ; translated by Cynthia Postan.
Publisher: Arnold
Published: 1977
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Social classes -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Social conditions -- To 1492; Europe -- History -- 476-1492
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Collection of articles originally published separately.
Table of contents: title: Medieval society.; title: The evolution of judicial institutions.; title: Lineage, nobility and knighthood.; title: The history and sociology of the medieval west.; title: The origins of a system of social classification.; title: The nobility in medieval France.; title: Youth in aristocratic society.; title: Laity and the peace of God.; title: The structure of kinship and nobility.; title: French genealogical literature.; title: The origins of knighthood.; title: The diffusion of cultural patterns in feudal society.; title: The transformation of the aristocracy.; title: The manor and the peasant economy.; title: The history of systems of values.