Drawing on myriad sources, this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve renowned historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experiences throughout the Middle Ages. "An important book".--Library Journal.
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These volumes, edited by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, are aimed at both the scholar and layperson who wonder how people lived and behaved from ancient times to the present: "their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits and habitations, their codes, their marks, and their signs." The focus is on western European life, primarily French.
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The wealth of materials is impressive, and Arthur Goldhammer's skillful translation captures the contributors' voices...Lavishly illustrated with well-captioned reproductions.
--Joseph Coates (Chicago Tribune )
A History of Private Life has been an immense undertaking...The series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation. It is thus an unusually strong recommendation to say that the final volume is worthy of its predecessors.
--Andrew Freeman (Financial Times )
The text is leavened with an abundant display of imagery...The entire series amounts to a vast treasury of human thought and experience, a sourcebook of ideas and images. At times lyrical, then analytical, but always provocative...A tool for the analyst and the novelist as much as the historian and anthropologist.
--Jonathan Kirsch (Los Angeles Times )
There's something wonderfully audacious about the very concept of 'History of Private Life,' a five-volume study that seeks to reveal the most intimate details of everyday life over three millennia of Western European history. Here is one scholarly work in which the bathroom and the bordello figure as importantly as the storming of the Bastille or the defeat of Napoleon ... A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past.
--Jonathan Kirsch (Los Amgeles Times )
--Joseph Coates (Chicago Tribune )
A History of Private Life has been an immense undertaking...The series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation. It is thus an unusually strong recommendation to say that the final volume is worthy of its predecessors.
--Andrew Freeman (Financial Times )
The text is leavened with an abundant display of imagery...The entire series amounts to a vast treasury of human thought and experience, a sourcebook of ideas and images. At times lyrical, then analytical, but always provocative...A tool for the analyst and the novelist as much as the historian and anthropologist.
--Jonathan Kirsch (Los Angeles Times )
There's something wonderfully audacious about the very concept of 'History of Private Life,' a five-volume study that seeks to reveal the most intimate details of everyday life over three millennia of Western European history. Here is one scholarly work in which the bathroom and the bordello figure as importantly as the storming of the Bastille or the defeat of Napoleon ... A fascinating glimpse into the distant and exotic past.
--Jonathan Kirsch (Los Amgeles Times )
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Interesting book in fascinating series.,
This review is from: History of Private Life, Volume V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times (Paperback)
Interesting book, part of a fascinating series. This is Volume 5, and I would recommend that anyone interested in ordinary life in various periods of time (especially family life) also buy the other books, which start with Pagan life and move forward to this book. (There is also another book, Volume 6, which I also plan to acquire.)
This book, like each of those in this series, is well-researched, then written in an easy-to-read style. It is not necessary to read any other books of this series to enjoy it, nor to start at the beginning of the series. This book, is very interesting, and well-worth reading.
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A decent summary of social history,
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This review is from: History of Private Life, Volume V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times (Paperback)
I found this edition less insightful than their earlier editions on Roman and Greek Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Some of their comments seem trite. Yet, overall it provides a good history of modern social life.
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