Medievalists.net » Georges Duby http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Caught in Love’s Grip: Passion and Moral Agency in French Courtly Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:06:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51801 French royal courts in the late twelfth century were absolutely smitten with love. Troubadaours traveled from place to place reciting stories of knights and the ladies they wooed.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/12/caught-loves-grip-passion-moral-agency-french-courtly-romance/feed/ 0 The Reordering of Society in Medieval Provence http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/reordering-society-medieval-provence/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/reordering-society-medieval-provence/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:10:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50944 "Here, some pray, others fight, still others work ..." {}). "Since the beginning of time, mankind has been divided into three groups, men of prayer, farmers, and warriors" (2). Appearing between 1024 and 1031 in the writings of Adelbero, bishop of Laon, and his cousin Gerard, bishop of Cambrai, these two statements constitute the first fully developed expression of a tripartite, or more accurately a trifunctional conceptualization of European society.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/07/reordering-society-medieval-provence/feed/ 0 Advocating change: monasteries, territories and justice between East and West Francia, 11th-12th centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/01/advocating-change-monasteries-territories-and-justice-between-east-and-west-francia-11th-12th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/01/advocating-change-monasteries-territories-and-justice-between-east-and-west-francia-11th-12th-centuries/#comments Sat, 01 Feb 2014 10:12:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47187 This article looks at the question of the formation of territorial principalities in western Europe through the issue of ecclesiastical advocacy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/01/advocating-change-monasteries-territories-and-justice-between-east-and-west-francia-11th-12th-centuries/feed/ 0 Women, Gender and Lordship in France, c.1050–1250 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/women-gender-and-lordship-in-france-c-1050-1250/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/women-gender-and-lordship-in-france-c-1050-1250/#comments Thu, 23 Jan 2014 01:17:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46908 Arguing that scholars should follow methods of analysis developed by historians of women in the early Middle Ages and must confront problems in the so-called ‘Duby thesis’, this article shows how anachronistic analytical categories and insufficient source criticism have masked our appreciation of the extensive political activities of non-royal aristocratic women in France during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/women-gender-and-lordship-in-france-c-1050-1250/feed/ 0 Emotions and Power in Orderic Vitalis http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/04/emotions-and-power-in-orderic-vitalis/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/04/emotions-and-power-in-orderic-vitalis/#comments Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:39:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46326 This essay explores some of the complexities and paradoxes encountered when one thinks about power, particularly as power was expressed by a single author, Orderic Vitalis.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/04/emotions-and-power-in-orderic-vitalis/feed/ 0 Partners in Rule: A Study of Twelfth-Century Queens of England http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/30/partners-in-rule-a-study-of-twelfth-century-queens-of-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/05/30/partners-in-rule-a-study-of-twelfth-century-queens-of-england/#comments Wed, 30 May 2012 20:23:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32252 The queens of twelfth-century England provide a prime example of how the queen was not, in fact, powerless in the rule of her realm, but rather a significant governmental official who had the opportunity to take a complementary part in royal rule that suited her strengths.

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