A History of Private Life,9780674400016

A History of Private Life

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780674400016
ISBN10: 0674400011
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-03-15
Publisher(s): Belknap Pr
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Summary

All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Georges Duby
Introduction
1(32)
Georges Duby
Private Power, Public Power
3(30)
Portraits
33(278)
Georges Duby
Dominique Barthelemy
Charles de La Ronciere
The Aristocratic Households of Feudal France
35(122)
Communal Living
35(50)
Kinship
85(72)
Tuscan Notables on the Eve of the Renaissance
157(154)
Imagining the Self
311(84)
Danielle Regnier-Bohler
Exploring Literature
313(82)
The Use of Private Space
395(112)
Dominique Barthelemy
Philippe Contamine
Civilizing the Fortress: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century
397(28)
Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
425(82)
The Emergence of the Individual
507(126)
Georges Duby
Philippe Braunstein
Solitude: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century
509(26)
Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
535(98)
Bibliography 633(6)
Credits 639(2)
Index 641

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