A History of Private Life V 3 – Passions of the Renaissance - Hardcover

Aries, P

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674399773 ISBN 13: 9780674399778

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1989

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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Review

This is a bold and seductive book...Richly illustrated, with contributions from foremost French historians, it is set fair to become the authoritative history of intimacy in the early modern West. -- Lyndal Roper "Times Higher Education Supplement" Its broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and exciting work for historians of Early Modern Europe. -- Lawrence Wolff "Journal of Social History" In the original sense of the term, "A History of Private Life" is a series of essays: attempts at a new, non-narrative kind of history. Sumptuously illustrated with pictures, maps, and photographs, the book is a feast for the eye; it is fascinating, often compelling in its exquisite details...A kaleidoscopic effect is doubtless part of the authors' purpose: to question our assumption that we understand the history of Renaissance individualism and make us realize that it is as complicated as the variety of traces left by three centuries of private life. -- Maureen Quilligan "New York Times Book Review"

Synopsis

Third of a five-volume set charts the characteristics of non-public behavior through a time of increasing government intervention in social life, widespread literacy leading to the solitary occupation of reading, and the post-Reformation churches encouraging private acts of religious devotion. Period artworks adorn nearly every page. Annotation cop

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674399773
• ISBN 13: 9780674399778
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 654