A History of Private Life. Revelations of the Medieval World (Volume 2)

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1993. - 690 p. Contents. Preface by Georges Duby. Introduction by Georges Duby. Portraits by Georges Duby, Dominique Barthélemy, Charles de La Roncière. The Aristocratic Households of Feudal France. Communal Living. Kinship. Tuscan Notables on the Eve of the Renaissance. Imagining the Self by Danielle Régnier-Bohler. Exploring Literature. The Use of Private Space by Dominique Barthélemy, Philippe Contamine. Civilizing the Fortress: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century. Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The Fourteenth and. Fifteenth Centuries. The Emergence of the Individual by Georges Duby, Philippe Braunstein. Solitude: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century. Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. Bibliography. Credits. Index.

all The Mystery, Earthiness And Romance Of The Middle Ages Are Captured In This Panorama Of Everyday Life. The Evolving Concepts Of Intimacy Are Explored--from The Semi-obscure Eleventh Century Through The First Stirrings Of The Renaissance World In The Fifteenth Century. Color And Black-and-white Illustrations.

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people Of The Middle Ages Were Suspicious Of Solitude. Feudal Dwellings Were Promiscuously Crowded, Monastery Layouts Reflected A Fear Of Isolation. Yet, The Idea Of Privacy, Linked To An Inner Life, Stubbornly Took Root. Intimacy Found Expression In Peasant Hearths, In Orchards Where Lovers Embraced, In Noble Households With Their Areas For Retreat, In Towers And Fortresses That Gave Ordinary People A Refuge From The Havoc Of War. The Private Sphere Spilled Out Into The Neighborhood. Moving From The Anonymous 11th Century To The Stirrings Of Renaissance Individualism, This Second Volume Of Essays In A Projected Five-volume Opus Is A Marvelous Re-creation Of History As It Was Actually Lived, An Archeological Excavation Of Daily Life Few Historians Have Attempted. Hundreds Of Apt Illustrations Complement Discussions Of Bedroom Design, Table Manners, Discovery Of The Body, Customs. The Growing Importance Of The Individual Is Traced Through Fables, Romances, Poems And A New Realism In Painting. The Contributors Are French Scholars; Duby Is A Professor At The College De France. History Book Club Alternate. (march)

All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations.

The final volume in the award-winning series charts the remarkable inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the present day, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics, and nationality. "A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past."--Los Angeles Times. 230 halftones, 2 tables.

The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations v. 1. From pagan Rome to Byzantium / Paul Veyne, editor v. 2. Revelations of the medieval world / Georges Duby, editor ; Arthur Goldhammer, translator v. 3. Passions of the Renaissance / Roger Chartier, editor ; Arthur Goldhammer, translator v. 4. From the fires of revolution to the great war / Michelle Perrot, editor ; Arthur Goldhammer, translator v. 5. Riddles of identity in modern times / Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, editors ; Arthur Goldhammer, translator. This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality. The second volume of "A History of Private Life" is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. Social life in Renaissance - Family in Renaissance - Renaissance women - Development of the concept of personal privacy What was private life like in the feudal age?