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. Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... Raphael was famous for depicting illustrious figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries. ... University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit and Catholic University in San Francisco, California, United States. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... For the University of Wisconsin system, see University of Wisconsin System. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. One of the eight Ivies, it was founded in 1636. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ...

His study of the Florentine and Pistoiese 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. Florence (Italian: ) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany, Italy. ... Pistoia (ancient Pistoria) is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km (18 mi) west and north of Florence. ... Catasto is the Italian registration system for real estate ownership (like the Land Registry in Britain). ... Events Lincoln College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford, is founded. ...

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.

Bibliography

• 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

References

• Basic biography at allbiographies.com