History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
Language: English
Published by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987
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CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. First American edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket, without printed price on front flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Quarter black cloth over brown paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. A tight, clean copy. Quarto, 664 pages with index. Volume I of A History of Private Life, subtitled From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, edited by Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, with contributions by Paul Veyne and others. This monumental scholarly series examines the evolution of private and domestic life from antiquity through modernity, tracing how intimacy, family, and interior life developed across historical epochs. Translated from the French.
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- Title
- History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
- Author
- Aries, Philippe (Editor)/ Duby, Georges/ Veyne, Paul (Editor)/ Aries, Philippe/ Duby, Georges (Editor)
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674399757
- ISBN 13
- 9780674399754
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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About the Author
Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.
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