History of Private Life Vol. 1: From the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Second Millennium

The five -volume "History of Private Life" is a comprehensive study created in the 1980s by a group of French, British and American scientists under the leadership of famous historians from the Annals school - Philip Aryes and Georges Dubie. The five -volume is covered by the whole history of the West from antiquity to the end of the 20th century. In the first volume - the private life of ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Byzantium: systems of social relationships that are strikingly not similar to known to us. An analysis of the institutions of family and slavery, religion and lawmaking, life and architecture allows you to deeply understand the transformations of both the way of private life and European mentality, and also highlights the eternal conflict of private and public. The translation was made according to the augmented publication of 1999.
3rd edition