Background
Herlihy, David Joseph was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Maurice Peter and Irene (O'Connor) Herlihy.
(What were the social conditions accompanying the splendid...)
What were the social conditions accompanying the splendid development of literature and art in the early Italian Renaissance? How badly did the population, both rural and urban, of fourteenth-century Italy suffer from the Black Death? Did factors other than the plague itself influence the population decline? Did the plague and other troubles of the fourteenth century induce an economic depression and, if so, how bad was it, and how long did it last? What changes did Italian society and government experience in the tumultuous period between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries? These questions have recently attracted the close attention of historians. Mr. Herlihy seeks answers to them, within the framework of the history of the town and countryside of Pistoia, a small Tuscan city near Florence which, from 1351, was subject to Florentine rule. For this period, Pistoia's sources are uniquely full. They illuminate such aspects of its medieval and Renaissance history as its demographic development, its agricultural and rural life about which little has hitherto been known, and the economic and social changes it experienced.
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(Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages ...)
Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood.
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(In the early Middle Ages, until as late as the thirteenth...)
In the early Middle Ages, until as late as the thirteenth century, women were active and independent participants in many sectors of economic life. Even apart from agriculture, they were prominent in all phases of cloth making, in brewing, medicine, education, administration, and in the dispensation of religious counsel. In the late Middle Ages, clearly so by the fifteenth century, women lost that prominence as well as their economic independence. Using a great variety of original sources, both literary and statistical, David Herlihy vividly demonstrates that the subordination of women within a household economy was specifically the product of the late Middle Ages. Opera Muliebria, the medieval Latin term for "women's labors", is the first comprehensive survey of women's participation in economic activities throughout Europe from ancient times to about 1500. Herlihy illustrates how medieval women lived and worked, and how their lives were transformed as the Middle Ages ended. He traces the dramatic change in their participation in productive enterprise to the establishment of guild monopolies and reveals that the virtual confinement of women's labors to work within the home was not an ancient arrangement, but rather the heritage of the late Middle Ages. Covering the entire continent of Europe for over a millennium of its history, Herlihy's work contributes to a better understanding not only of medieval women but of the entire social world of the Middle Ages. Author note: David Herlihy is Mary Critchfield and Barnaby Keeney Professor of History at Brown University and President of the American Historical Association in 1990. He is the author of several books including "Medieval Households".
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Herlihy, David Joseph was born on May 8, 1930 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Maurice Peter and Irene (O'Connor) Herlihy.
Bachelor, University San Francisco, 1952. Doctor of Humanities (honorary), University San Francisco, 1985. Master of Arts, Catholic University America, 1953.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1956.
Particular topics of his included domestic life, especially the roles of women, and the changing structure of the family. His study of the Florentine and Pistoiese Catasto of 1427 is one of the first statistical surveys to use computers to analyse large amounts of data. The resulting book examines statistical patterns in tax-collecting surveys to find indications of social trends.
The University of San Francisco history department named their annual award for the best student-written history paper the David Herlihy Prize, and Brown University has established a David Herlihy University Professorship.
“lieutenant is not at all certain that the diseases we observe today are the same that troubled our ancestors.”.
(What were the social conditions accompanying the splendid...)
(Opera Muliebria (medieval Latin term for "women's labours...)
(In the early Middle Ages, until as late as the thirteenth...)
(Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages ...)
(Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages ...)
(Presents examples of the principal types of records which...)
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(Book by Herlihy, David)
Quotations: “lieutenant is not at all certain that the diseases we observe today are the same that troubled our ancestors.”.
Fellow Mediaeval Academy American (president 1981-1982). Member American History Association (president 1989-1990), American Catholic History Association (president 1971-1972), Midwest Mediaeval Conference (president 1971-1972), Society Italian History Studies (president 1981-1983), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society.
Married Patricia McGahey, June 4, 1952. Children: Maurice, Christopher, David, Felix, Gregory, Irene.