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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674400011
ISBN-139780674400016
eBay Product ID (ePID)945499
Product Key Features
Number of Pages688 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHistory of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World
SubjectGeneral, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year1993
TypeTextbook
AuthorArthur Goldhammer
Subject AreaReference, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition19
ReviewsFourteen different French historians trace this triumph [of individualism] in richly illustrated chapters surveying the terrain of privacy by a variety of procedures...The book is a feast for the eye; it is fascinating, often compelling in its exquisite detail., Like its predecessor in the same series, [this book] makes full use of the whole range of evidence and, most strikingly, the visual... This thoughtful, handsome book would be a fine addition to any library., Profusely and intelligently illustrated, generously margined, and wisely and clearly written...[this volume] invites a profound reconsideration of our notions about much of the past and suggests new ways of looking at it...We ought to be inspired to think about our own notion and practice of private life., Profusely and intelligently illustrated, generously margined, and wisely and clearly written...[this volume] invites a profound reconsideration of our notions about much of the past and suggests new ways of looking at it... We ought to be inspired to think about our own notion and practice of private life., The material in this second anthology...is personally involving and profoundly informative... This immense work of imaginative history lifts us out of our own constructed walls. It reveals to us not only the shapes and colors of another time, but of our own., The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series...masterfully translated by Arthur Goldhammer... Copious illustrative materials--paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life... Magnificent., The material in this second anthology...is personally involving and profoundly informative...This immense work of imaginative history lifts us out of our own constructed walls. It reveals to us not only the shapes and colors of another time, but of our own., Like its predecessor in the same series, [this book] makes full use of the whole range of evidence and, most strikingly, the visual...This thoughtful, handsome book would be a fine addition to any library., Spanning the period from the 11th century to the Renaissance and focusing on France and Tuscan Italy, this continues the projected five-volume history of private life from the Roman world to the present. 'Private' is here defined as what medieval people considered intimate, familial, domestic... [The book] display[s] an astounding knowledge and use of sources and offer rich detail about everything from affection and sex to domestic arrangements and latrines. The many illustrations strongly support the text. Essential for both research and general collections., This volume offers a very full, richly variegated picture of the life, in different places and at different periods, of the Middle Ages. The lavish and well-chosen illustrations match the text., Together these five compact volumes cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority., What gives the volume its unity is not so much a rigorous definition of the subject, private life, as a consistency of concentration on a series of very interesting, interrelated themes: living space, and the degree of privacy that it can afford; family relationships, with special references to the nuclear group that centers around a single married couple; relations between the sexes (both amorous and domestic); attitudes toward the body and nudity; the sense of individuality and self-perception... This volume offers a very full, richly variegated picture of the life, in different places and at different periods, of the Middle Ages. It has lavish and well-chosen illustrations to match the text.
TitleLeadingA
Volume NumberVolume II
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal909/.09821
Table Of ContentPreface by Georges Duby 1. Introduction by Georges Duby Private Power, Public Power 2. 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 3. Imagining the Self by Danielle RÉgnier-Bohler Exploring Literature 4. 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 5. 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
SynopsisThe second volume of A History of Private Life contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This secret epic aims to construct a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in different places in the 11th to the 15th centuries., 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.
LC Classification NumberCB245
