History of private life. Volume 2. Europe from feudalism to Renaissance

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 second volume - the private life of Europe from the time of the high Middle Ages. The authors of the book tell how family life and public ways have changed in comparison with the antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, how complex legal establishments correlated with everyday life, how a European individual was born and how the life of a private person was displayed in literature