History Of Private Life, A: Vol 3, Passions Of The Renaissance

Chartier, Roger, Ed.; Arthur Goldhammer, Tr.

ISBN 10: 0674399773 / ISBN 13: 9780674399778

Published by Harvard University Press, 1989

About this Item

645 pp. 7 1/8 x 9 1/4. Beige boards, scuffed/soiled, with qutr black cloth, stamped in gold on spine. Gray glossy dj, quite edgeworn. No interior markings noted. Minor soiling to bottom page edges.

Seller Inventory # 79052

Bibliographic Details

• Title: History Of Private Life, A: Vol 3, Passions Of The Renaissance
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674399773
• ISBN 13: 9780674399778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: BCE.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: DJ: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a brugeoning self-consciousness. It explores the Renaissance era which was characterized by an upsurge in private writings and a new concentration of the self in literature and art.

About the Author

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