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

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Author: n/a
First Published: 1986
Type of Work: History
Time of Work: 1500-1800
Setting: Primarily France; England; Western and Northern Europe
Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, History
Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, France or French people, Twentieth century, Social issues, Social life, Food, Identity, Catholics or Catholic Church, Life, philosophy of, Renaissance, Pornography, Protestantism or Protestant churches
Locales: France, United States, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden

A History of Private Life: Passions of the Renaissance is the third volume in a history of private life from antiquity to the twentieth century. Published in France between 1985 and 1987, the five volumes of this series have been appearing in English translation at the rate of one volume a year. The first volume ranged from pagan Rome to Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries; the second focused on the medieval world and the beginnings of the Renaissance. Volume 4, overlapping slightly the volume under review, will span the period from the French Revolution to World War I,...

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

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