David V. Herlihy is een auteur en historicus wiens werk duikt in de geschiedenis van de wielersport. Zijn geschriften kenmerken zich door diepgaand onderzoek en verhalende vaardigheden die vervlogen tijdperken en met de sport geassocieerde figuren tot leven brengen. Via zijn werk onderzoekt Herlihy de culturele en sociale impact van fietsen en zijn plaats in menselijke avonturen. Zijn benadering is geworteld in nauwgezet historisch onderzoek en meeslepende proza, die lezers meeneemt naar werelden die lang geleden voorbij zijn.
Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of nationalism.
This text deals with the story of Western civilization. It covers social history, women's history and the interaction of the West with the other regions of the world. The text is available in a combined edition, a two-volume edition, a three-volume edition, and a Renaissance edition.
Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood.
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.