First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves--from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces.
The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian...
First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient wo...
The 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 contains much rich and colourful detail culled from a considerable variety of sources. This secret epic...
An examination of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This volume celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries.
An examination of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This volume celebrates the emergence of individualis...
This text, volume four in a series on the evolution of private life, covers the development of self-consciousness from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I, a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that altered life in the West.
This text, volume four in a series on the evolution of private life, covers the development of self-consciousness from the tumult of the French Revolu...
This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, when personal identity was released from its moorings in gender, family, social class, religion, politics and nationality.
This fifth and final volume of an award-winning series charts the changing inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the 1990s, whe...
