David Herlihy Bücher

Das Standardwerk über die verheerende Pest von 1348 und ihre Folgen: Herlihy untersucht den radikalen Einschnitt durch die Pest in der Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts, der in Europa bis zu drei Viertel der Bevölkerung zum Opfer fielen und die sich in diesem Ausmaß nie mehr wiederholte. Ein interdisziplinäres Buch über den >Schwarzen Tod<, nicht nur als kaum noch vorstellbare geschichtliche Katastrophe, sondern als Auslöser einer bis heute andauernden technologischen und gesellschaftlichen Erneuerung.

Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood.

This book integrates social, economic, cultural and political elements of Western civilization. Each chapter is written as a complete unit - exploring historical themes, causes and processes, rather than simply stating names, dates and events. Volume I covers Western civilization to 1715 (chapters 1-17) and volume II covers Western civilization from 1600 (chapters 15-30). The book is available both as a two-volume set and as a three volume-set. In the three-volume set, volume I covers antiquity to the Middle Ages (chapters 1-12), volume II the early modern period to Napoleonic times (chapters 11-21) and the modern era to the present (chapters 20-30).

Editor David Herlihy gives examples of the principal types of documents that historians use in their investigations of feudal society. These include not only laws and legal commentaries, private charters and administrative records, but also selections from chronicles, saints' lives, sermons, liturgical works, and imaginative literature. Together these diverse sources illustrate in concrete and human terms the relationships between men and women, governments and their people, which were at the heart of the feudal system. Most of the documents have been newly translated.