A History of Private Life 2: Revelations of the Medieval World

Author / Editor
Duby, Georges, ed.

Title
A History of Private Life 2: Revelations of the Medieval World

Published
Cambridge and London: Belknap-Harvard University Press, 1988.

Physical Description
xiii, 650 pp.: illus.

Description
English version of of Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby, gen. eds. De l'Europe feodale a la Renaissance, vol. 2 of Histoire de la vie privee. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1985, translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Traces the growth of privacy, solitude, and individuality in all aspects of bourgeois and noble life in the later Middle Ages, chiefly in France and Italy, the tendency becoming most pronounced around the time of the Black Death.

Contributor
Goldhammer, Arthur,
Aries, Phillipe,trans.
ed.

Alternative Title
De l'Europe feodale a la Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.