Georges Duby, Author Pantheon Books $15.95 (155p) ISBN 978-0-394-54309-3
""I am not writing the history of events,'' states Duby, a distinguished French scholar (The Age of the Cathedrals, etc.). ``I want to try to see the world the way these men saw it.'' He succeeds brilliantly, in this chronicle of a humble knight who
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Georges Duby, Author, Arthur Goldhammer, Translator, John W. Baldwin, Designed by University of Chicago Press $38 (166p) ISBN 978-0-226-16775-6
French historian, medievalist and popular TV personality Duby is an adherent of the Annales school of historiography, which emphasizes the material conditions of life over the deeds of politicians and warriors. He devotes nearly half of these dry,...
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Georges Duby, Author, Xavier Barrari I. Altet, Author, Guillot De Suiduirot, With Rizzoli International Publications $78.65 (318p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1285-1
Billed as the first full-scale study of medieval sculpture in Western Europe, this magnificent album unfolds a panorama of riches that few art lovers or tourists have fully glimpsed. Its diversity encompasses fragile stucco figures in the Ravenna...
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