A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674399765 ISBN 13: 9780674399761

Publisher: Belknap Press, 1988

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Review:

Fourteen different French historians trace this triumph [of individualism] in richly illustrated chapters surveying the terrain of privacy by a variety of procedures...The book is a feast for the eye; it is fascinating, often compelling in its exquisite detail.
--Maureen Quilligan (New York Times Book Review)

Profusely and intelligently illustrated, generously margined, and wisely and clearly written...[this volume] invites a profound reconsideration of our notions about much of the past and suggests new ways of looking at it...We ought to be inspired to think about our own notion and practice of private life.
--Edward Peters (The Nation)

The material in this second anthology...is personally involving and profoundly informative...This immense work of imaginative history lifts us out of our own constructed walls. It reveals to us not only the shapes and colors of another time, but of our own.
--Paul Kafka (Bloomsbury Review)

This volume offers a very full, richly variegated picture of the life, in different places and at different periods, of the Middle Ages. The lavish and well-chosen illustrations match the text.
--Maurice Keen (New York Review of Books)

Like its predecessor in the same series, [this book] makes full use of the whole range of evidence and, most strikingly, the visual...This thoughtful, handsome book would be a fine addition to any library.
--David Herlihy (Boston Globe)

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0674399765
• ISBN 13: 9780674399761
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 688