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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Roger Chartier , Arthur Goldhammer , Phillippe Ariès , Georges DubyPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.061kg ISBN: 9780674400023ISBN 10: 067440002 Pages: 656 Publication Date: 15 October 1993 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsIn the original sense of the term, A History of Private Life is a series of essays: attempts at a new, non-narrative kind of history. Sumptuously illustrated with pictures, maps, and photographs, the book is a feast for the eye; it is fascinating, often compelling in its exquisite details… A kaleidoscopic effect is doubtless part of the authors’ purpose: to question our assumption that we understand the history of Renaissance individualism and make us realize that it is as complicated as the variety of traces left by three centuries of private life. -- Maureen Quilligan * New York Times Book Review * This is a bold and seductive book… Richly illustrated, with contributions from foremost French historians, it is set fair to become the authoritative history of intimacy in the early modern West. -- Lyndal Roper * Times Higher Education Supplement * Its broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and exciting work for historians of Early Modern Europe. -- Lawrence Wolff * Journal of Social History * 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 * New York Times Book Review * 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 * Its broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and exciting work for historians of Early Modern Europe. -- Lawrence Wolff Journal of Social History Author InformationGeorges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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