Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West

Georges Duby (1919-1996) was one of the foremost medievalists and a prolific author. His many books include The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined, The Chivalrous Society, History Continues, and The Age of Cathedrals: Art and Society, 980-1420.

"A masterpiece."-Speculum "One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read... It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."-Speculum