Georges Duby

Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the Middle Ages. Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... Image File history File links This work is copyrighted. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 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, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

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. ( 9th century - 10th century - 11th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ... (10th century - 11th century - 12th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ... The Annales School is a school of historical writing named after the French scholarly journal Annales dhistoire économique et sociale (later called , then renamed in 1994 as ) where it was first expounded. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marc Lâeopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 - June 16, 1944) was a historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. ... Lucien Febvre (Nancy, 1878 - Saint-Amour, Jura, 1956) was a French historian best known for the role he played in establishing the Annales School of history. ... Fernand Braudel (August 24, 1902–November 27, 1985) was a historian who revolutionized the 20th century study of the discipline by considering the effects of economics and geography on global history, a prominent member of the Annales School of historiography, who concentrated on meticulous historical analysis in the social sciences. ...

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. This article is about the year. ... Courtyard of the Collège de France. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Académie française, or French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. ...

Works

• The Sunday of Bouvines (1973) (Translated in English as The Legend of Bouvines (1990) ISBN 0520062388)
• 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).

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