The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered society, by means of diaries, paintings, games, and school curricula. Ironically, he finds that individualism, far from triumphing in our time, has been held in check by the family, and that the increasing power of the tightly-knit family circle has flourished at the expense of the...
The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries t...
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 remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying from the earliest Christian times to the present day. A truly landmark study, The Hour of Our Death reveals a pattern of gradually developing evolutionary stages in our perceptions of life in relation to death, each stage representing a virtual redefinition of human nature. Starting at the very foundations of Western culture, the eminent historian Phillipe Aries shows how, from Graeco-Roman times through the first ten centuries of the...
This remarkable book--the fruit of almost two decades of study--traces in compelling fashion the changes in Western attitudes toward death and dying f...
Was wir Kindheit nennen, hat es nicht immer gegeben. Was wir "Familie" nennen - die Gemeinschaft von Eltern und Kindern -, entwickelte sich in Europa erst im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert allmählich aus den größeren Sippen- und Stammesverbänden; sie wird dann zu einer moralischen Institution.
Was wir Kindheit nennen, hat es nicht immer gegeben. Was wir "Familie" nennen - die Gemeinschaft von Eltern und Kindern -, entwickelte sich in Europa ...
