History of Private Life v.2

Autor:: Aries
Wydawnictwo:: Harvard University Press
Liczba stron:: 688
Format:: oprawa miękka
ISBN-13/EAN:: 9780674400016
ISBN-10:: 0674400011

History of Private Life v.2, : 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.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 ReviewProfusely 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 NationThe 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 ReviewThis 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 BooksLike 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

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