{"product_id":"from-pagan-rome-to-byzantium-9780674399747","title":"From Pagan Rome to Byzantium","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivate life has always been a matter of public conjecture. This admirable book brings it intelligently into the web of social history and is a model for historians and readers alike. Beautifully produced, it adds apt and rare illustrations to a text by experts who presuppose human curiosity, but no undue knowledge. Its range and level of argument will intrigue anyone who has wondered about past attitudes to such matters as sex and the family, households, social inferiors, dress and even undress. -- Robin Lane Fox * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eThis first volume is one of the most arresting, original, and rewarding historical surveys to be published in many years, and its value is enhanced by the hundreds of illustrations, which present almost every conceivable detail of private life as it was lived in the centuries. -- Bernard Knox * The Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003eA stimulating—indeed a provocative—and beautiful book on a difficult subject… It’s a treasure. * Christian Science Monitor *\u003cbr\u003eThe five essays collected here…treat readers to a vast array of anecdotes and conjectures about the private life of our forebears. -- Roger Kimball * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA book which makes the reader think, teasing and encouraging with spicy details, long views, a capacity for the unexpected insight. Now for something completely different. -- Jasper Griffin * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a long, demanding and very rewarding book. If the remaining four volumes are of this quality, the series will indeed, as the editors claim, be ‘a milestone in historical research.’ -- Jane F. Gardner * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eThis absorbingly illustrated series is intent on presenting the past with both physical immediacy and with as little academic fuss as possible. The illustrations in the first volume have a subjective penetration of the text that is like an inner musical accompaniment. This volume does not pretend to roll out a complete rug of civilization… Few readers, even of \u003ci\u003eI, Claudius\u003c\/i\u003e, will have experienced pagan Rome with quite the freshness evident here… History-to-touch. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eThe new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series… Copious illustrative materials—paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life… Magnificent. -- Roger Shattuck * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eTogether these five compact volumes cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority. * Washington Post Book World *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword 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 Thebert   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","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735971377495,"sku":"9780674399747","price":41.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674399747.jpg?v=1723810420","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-pagan-rome-to-byzantium-9780674399747","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}