Georges Duby’s <i>Mâconnais</i> after fifty years: reading it then and now
Fredric L. Cheyette
Georges Duby’s La société aux XIe et XIIe siècles dans la région mâconnaise was the foundation stone of major school French medieval social history in last generation. This article reflects on reasons for its historiographical importance at time, and especially narrative ‘feudal revolution’ that it is largely responsible generating. Returning to database, charters Cluny St Vincent Mâcon, reconsiders portrayal tenth century society Mâconnais concludes there no basis evidence any ‘mutation’ or ‘revolutionary’ change occurring around year 1000.
Journal of Medieval History