by Georges Duby · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070286041
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«Les trois ordres ou l'Imaginaire du féodalisme» is the historical essay by Georges Duby, published by Gallimard in paperback (428 pages, in French).
Georges Duby analyses how feudal society thought of itself through the scheme of the three orders: those who pray, those who fight and those who work. He studies why this tripartite image became consolidated between the 11th and 12th centuries, linked to the economy, politics and culture, and how it helped cement the Ancien Régime.
The work was originally published in 1978 and belongs to Gallimard's Bibliothèque des histoires collection.
Reference work for students and researchers of medieval history and for readers interested in the ideological construction of feudal society.
Georges Duby was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France's most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s to his death. In 2019, his work was published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
