A History of Private Life, Volume II | A History of Private Life, Volume II

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Author: Georges Duby
First Published: 1985
Type of Work: Social history
Time of Work: The eleventh century to the early sixteenth century
Setting: France and Italy
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
Subjects: Culture, Family or family life, Politics, Love or romance, Human rights, Social issues, Social life, Law or legislation, Food, Fifteenth century, Identity, Sixteenth century, Life, philosophy of, Middle Ages, Houses, mansions, or manors, Thirteenth century, Fourteenth century, Twelfth century, Eleventh century
Locales: France, Italy

A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World is the second volume in a series which began with Histoire de la vie privée: De L’Empire romain á l’an mil (1985; A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, 1987) and will continue through three additional volumes. This survey of the private life of past civilizations is one of the fruits of the new social history which began when the French historians Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch founded Annales: Économies, sociétés, civilisations and Fernand Braudel began his influential...

A History of Private Life, Volume II | A History of Private Life, Volume II

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