A History of Private Life 5 Vols
154014Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 0-674-39975-7 1987-1991. 4to 670 650 645 713 630pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jackets. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations notes bibliography index. The spines are slightly edgeworn and the dust jackets are lightly edgeworn. "First of a handsome new series this book reveals what it was really like to live work and die in the ancient world. Beginning with the pagan Romans the reader discovers behind the vast panorama of empire the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family the roles of women chastity and contraception". Edited by Roger Chartier Michelle Perrot Antoine Prost Paul Veyne & Gerard Vincent. Vol. 1 From Pagan Rome to Byzantium. Vol. 2 From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War. Vol. 3 Passions of the Renaissance. Vol. 4 Revelations of the Medieval World. Vol. 5 Riddles of Identity in Modern Times. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. History Domestic Life Privacy. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Hardcover
