Georges Duby and the Medieval Peasantry
Paul Freedman
The late Georges Duby contributed to many fields of medieval history, from his explorations social ideology the experience women. This article looks at work on peasants in Middle Ages, emphasising particular thesis Mâconnais (published 1953), L'économie rurale (1962), and Guerriers et paysans (1973). was increasingly interested tracing emergence aristocratic power, its ethos family patterns. He came see as rather passive base which brilliant chivalric culture period erected. His earlier studies, however, depicted agrarian society own right with exemplary vividness detail. discusses changes continuities Duby's understanding peasantry enduring influence this historian.
Medieval History Journal