A History of Private Life, Vol. 3: Passions of the Renaissance 3

Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries. 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.