| A History of Private Life Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chartier, Roger (Editor), Goldhammer, Arthur (Translator), Ariès, Phillippe (Editor) |
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ISBN: 067440002X ISBN-13: 9780674400023 Publisher: Belknap Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1993 Annotation: 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. Click for more in this series: History of Private Life (Paperback) |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - History | World - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 390.009 |
| Series: History of Private Life (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 7" W x 9.04" L (2.31 lbs) 656 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Maps |
| Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/1999 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Duby, Georges: - Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France. |
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