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A History of Private Life Series

This comprehensive series delves into the intimate realms of private life across centuries and cultures. It explores how people's personal worlds evolved, reflecting societal, economic, and technological shifts. Each volume offers a fascinating look into the daily customs, family dynamics, and individual experiences that shaped human existence. It is an epic journey through the history of human intimacy and its place in society.

Geschichte des privaten Lebens
La Vita Privata. Il Novecento
A History of Private Life IV. From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
Geschichte des privaten Lebens 3
A History of Private Life II. Revelations of the Medieval World
A History of Private Life: From pagan Rome to Byzantium

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  1. A History of Private Life: From pagan Rome to Byzantium

    • 704 pages
    • 25 hours of reading

    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 morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and undisciplined private life of the Byzantine Empire. Using illuminating motifs, the authors weave a rich, colorful fabric ornamented with the results of new research and the broad interpretations that only masters of the subject can provide.

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  2. A History of Private Life II. Revelations of the Medieval World

    The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. 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

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  4. A History of Private Life IV. From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War

    • 754 pages
    • 27 hours of reading

    The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development 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, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.

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  5. La Vita Privata. Il Novecento

    • 466 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    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.

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    »Privates Leben ist keine Naturtatsache; es ist geschichtliche Wirklichkeit, die von den einzelnen Gesellschaften in unterschiedlicher Weise konstruiert wird. Es gibt nicht das private Leben mit ein für allemal festgelegten Schranken nach außen; was es gibt, ist die - selber veränderliche - Zuschreibung menschlichen Handelns zur privaten oder zur öffentlichen Sphäre. ... Die Geschichte des privaten Lebens beginnt mit der Geschichte seiner Markierungen.« Antoine Prost »Diese große, eindrucksvolle Unternehmung wird man einmal zu den fortdauernden Werken der Historiographie in unserer Zeit zählen.« "Times Literary Supplement"

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