David Herlihy

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David Herlihy (1930 – 1991) was an American historian who wrote on medieval and renaissance life. Particular topics include domestic life, especially the roles of women, and the changing structure of the family. He studied for his bachelor's at the University of San Francisco, received a doctoral degree from Yale University and taught at Wisconsin, Harvard and Brown.

His study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427 is one of the first statistical surveys to use computers to analyse large amounts of data. The resulting book examines statistical patterns in tax-collecting surveys to find indications of social trends.

The University of San Francisco history department named their annual award for the best student-written history paper the David Herlihy Prize, and Brown University has established a David Herlihy University Professorship.

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Pisa In The Early Renaissance; A Study Of Urban Growth, 1958
Medieval And Renaissance Pistoia; The Social History Of An Italian Town, 1200-1430, 1967
Medieval Culture and Society, 1968 (compiler)
The History of Feudalism, 1970 (compiler)
Women in Medieval Society, 1971
The Social History Of Italy And Western Europe, 700-1500, 1978
Les Toscans Et Leurs Familles : Une étude Du "Catasto" Florentin De 1427, 1979 (with Christiane Klapisch-Zuber)
Cities And Society In Medieval Italy, 1980
Medieval Households, 1985
Tuscans and their Families, 1985
Opera Muliebria : Women And Work In Medieval Europe, 1990