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A History of Private Life: Volume 2 - Revelations of the Medieval World.

A History of Private Life: Volume 2 - Revelations of the Medieval World.

by P Aries (Author)

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 666
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Belknap/Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Jul 1988
ISBN 10: 0674399765
ISBN 13: 9780674399761

Media Reviews
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
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
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