A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World

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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.

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ISBN-13:	9780674400016
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	03/15/1993
Series:	History of Private Life Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	688
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)
Language:	French
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Preface
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

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Editorial Reviews

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.

Bloomsbury Review - Paul Kafka

Together these five compact volumes cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority.

Washington Post Book World

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.

New York Review of Books - Maurice Keen

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 Nation - Edward Peters

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.

Boston Globe - David Herlihy

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.

Roger Shattuck

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.
— Maurice Keen

New York Review of Books

Fourteen 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.
— Maureen Quilligan

New York Times Book Review

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.
— David Herlihy

Boston Globe

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.
— Edward Peters

The Nation

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.
— Paul Kafka

Bloomsbury Review

Fourteen 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.

New York Times Book Review - Maureen Quilligan

A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World

A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World

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