Georges Duby

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Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages.

He was most particularly a specialist in the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries in western Europe. He was associated with the École des Annales, founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre and with which Fernand Braudel was also associated.

Duby came from a family of artisans.

He obtained l'agrégation de lettres in 1942 and began his career as a teacher. In 1970 he was elected to the Collège de France and in 1987 he entered the Académie française.

[edit] Works

• The Sunday of Bouvines (1973) (Translated in English as The Legend of Bouvines (1990) ISBN 0-520-06238-8)
• The Year 1000 (1974).
• The Age of the Cathedrals (1976).
• The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined (1978).
• The Knight, The Lady, and the Priest (1981).
• William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry (1984).

[edit] External link

• Georges Duby: historian and aesthete of the Middle Ages

Preceded by: Marcel Arland

Seat 26 Académie française 1987–1996

Succeeded by: Jean-Marie Rouart