A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance - Hardcover

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9780674399778: A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance

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.

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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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These volumes, edited by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, are aimed at both the scholar and layperson who wonder how people lived and behaved from ancient times to the present: "their thoughts, their feelings, their bodies, their attitudes, their habits and habitations, their codes, their marks, and their signs." The focus is on western European life, primarily French.
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