by Georges Duby · Hachette · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010078972
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«Le chevalier, la femme et le prêtre: le mariage dans la France féodale», historical essay by Georges Duby, in paperback.
Essay on the history of marriage as an institution in feudal France: Duby reconstructs how the Church gradually imposed its control over marriage against the practices and privileges of the warrior nobility, eventually leading to a balance between conjugal love and courtly love.
Published in 1981 in the collection «La Force des idées»; the volume includes bibliographic references.
For readers interested in medieval social history and the evolution of religious and family institutions.
Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
