Preface
by Georges Duby

1. Introduction
by Georges Duby

Private Power, Public Power

2. Portraits
by Georges Duby, Dominique Barthélemy, Charles de La Roncière

The Aristocratic Households of Feudal France

Communal Living

Kinship

Tuscan Notables on the Eve of the Renaissance

3. Imagining the Self
by Danielle Régnier-Bohler

Exploring Literature

4. The Use of Private Space
by Dominique Barthélemy, Philippe Contamine

Civilizing the Fortress: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century

Peasant Hearth to Papal Palace: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

5. The Emergence of the Individual
by Georges Duby, Philippe Braunstein

Solitude: Eleventh to Thirteenth Century

Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Bibliography

Credits

Index

Georges Duby, a member of the Académie Française, is Professor of Medieval History at the Collège de France.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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