Following Donne nello specchio del Medioevo (1995), Laterza is publishing the second volume of the trilogy devoted by Duby to women in the 12th century. Using a literary genre that was very fashionable at the time – genealogical histories composed in honour of great families – Duby gathers information for a vivid picture that will overturn our usual ideas about the total subordination of women in the Middle Ages.
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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.
