A History of Private Life, Volume I, From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

Series edited by Phillippe Ariès

Series edited by Georges Duby

Volume editor Paul Veyne

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

    Foreword
    by Georges Duby

    Introduction
    by Paul Veyne

    1. Roman Empire
    by Paul Veyne

    Introduction

    From Mother's Womb to Last Will and Testament

    Marriage

    Slavery

    The Household and Its Freed Slaves

    Where Public Life Was Private

    "Work" and Leisure

    Patrimony

    Public Opinion and Utopia

    Pleasures and Excesses

    Tranquilizers

    2. Late Antiquity
    by Peter Brown

    Introduction

    The "Wellborn" Few

    Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity

    Church and Leadership

    The Challenge of the Desert

    East and West: The New Marital Morality

    3. Private Life and Domestic Architecture in Roman Africa
    by Yvon Thébert

    The Roman Home: Foreword by Paul Veyne

    Some Theoretical Considerations

    The Domestic Architecture of the Ruling Class

    "Private" and "Public" Spaces: The Components of the Domus

    How the Domus Worked

    Conclusion

    4. The Early Middle Ages in the West
    by Michel Rouche

    Introduction by Paul Veyne

    Historical Introduction

    Private Life Conquers State and Society

    Body and Heart

    Violence and Death

    Sacred and Secret

    Conclusion

    5. Byzantium in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
    by Evelyne Patlagean

    The Byzantine Empire

    Private Space

    Self and Others

    The Inner Life

    Private Belief

    Conclusion

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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

Paul Veyne is Professor 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.