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“... Lancelot du Lac. It is rumoured that Jancso is now preparing a film, inspired by the work of Georges Duby, of the great clash of knights at Bouvines (1214), one of the few decisive set-piece battles of the Middle Ages. Such artists, like their Romantic predecessors, find in the culture of Medieval knighthood what they want or need to ...”

“... words still point to the remoteness of the Medieval period. In his fascinating new book, Professor Duby stresses that his subject, the knight-errant William Marshal, was never alone: ‘Who is ever alone at the beginning of the 13th century but the mad, the possessed – marginal figures who are hunted down? An orderly world requires that each man remain ...”

“... Freud, Lévi-Strauss, the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp and the French comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil. An initial reaction to this collection of essays on diverse medieval subjects is likely to be that of admiration for a scholar who can pursue so many intellectual interests so constructively. A second reaction may be to be somewhat suspicious of ...”

“... attempt to get through the evidence to the minds that produced it comes from the volume edited by Georges Duby, whose contributors are determined to read the historical sources sideways. They read romances and ask why King Arthur had to be bled in public. They read sermons on lust and ask what these imply about dormitory arrangements. The drive of their ...”

“... historiography that still dominated studies of the French Revolution under the leadership of Georges Lefebvre, despite his earlier association with the school; they were as much a part of the social-scientific reaction to it as the econometric historians then emerging in the US. On Febvre’s death in 1956 Braudel succeeded him as director of Annales and ...”

“... programme of Annales in 1956, and helped shape the work of a generation of Annalistes, including Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.Perhaps more than any other Annaliste, Braudel found meaning in a ‘history which almost stands still’. But can continuity ever be as involving as individual human stories? Braudel’s books are ...”

“... In his novels, the late Gwyn Thomas used to refer to those who frequented the pubs and cafés of small Welsh towns as ‘the voters’. It would certainly be the way to describe the adult population of France who, last spring, voted twice to elect a President (on 24 April and 8 May) and twice to elect a Parliament (on 5 and 12 June). In September they voted in local elections, and in November the referendum on the future of New Caledonia took place ...”

“... in point, but the same can be said of the anthropologist (Claude Lévi-Strauss), the historian (Georges Duby), the sociologist (Pierre Bourdieu), not to mention the scientist (Jean-Pierre Changeux) or even the poet (Yves Bonnefoy). Today, the Collège de France is the stuff intellectual dreams are made of. Academia has displaced literature as the home ...”

“... in Tuscany (which is contrasted, for example, with France, as presented in the recent work of Georges Duby). Before the Council of Trent, the Church played a relatively marginal part in the process of betrothal and marriage, and there was considerable popular resistance to its glorification of religious marriage. The clergy condemned the popular ...”