History of Private Life
The widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated History of Private Life series traces how society moved from an entirely-public to an almost entirely-private way of life. The five volume collection shows how people’s perceptions of themselves, their homes, their families, and their possessions changed, and how their ways of celebrating life events changed.
Below are the in-print works in this collection. Sort by title, author, format, publication date, or price »
| 1. |  | A History of Private Life, Volume I: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. |
| 2. |  | A History of Private Life, Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing “secret epic” constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. |
| 3. |  | A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance Readers will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries. |
| 4. |  | A History of Private Life, Volume IV: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I—a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world. |
| 5. |  | A History of Private Life, Volume V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times |
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library
Loeb Classical Library
Murty Classical Library of India