Volume 31, Number 1 · February 2, 1984
Revolution and Revelation
By Natalie Zemon Davis
The Age of the Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420
by Georges Duby, translated by Eleanor Levieux, by Barbara Thompson
University of Chicago Press, 312 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined
by Georges Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
University of Chicago Press, 382 pp., $9.95 (paper)
For the past thirty years Georges Duby has been reconstructing the history of feudal society along lines that were first laid out by the great French historian Marc Bloch. In doing so Duby has himself become one of the most interesting and productive historians at work today. Bloch's inspiration he has acknowledged, of course, both in his earliest work on the Mâconnais region in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and again in 1970 when he made the inaugural address at the College de France. Bloch's example, he said then, had helped him to discover the living people behind the dust of the archives.[1]
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