{"product_id":"passions-of-the-renaissance-9780674400023","title":"Passions of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the original sense of the term, \u003ci\u003eA History of Private Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a series of essays: attempts at a new, non-narrative kind of history. Sumptuously illustrated with pictures, maps, and photographs, the book is a feast for the eye; it is fascinating, often compelling in its exquisite details… A kaleidoscopic effect is doubtless part of the authors’ purpose: to question our assumption that we understand the history of Renaissance individualism and make us realize that it is as complicated as the variety of traces left by three centuries of private life. -- Maureen Quilligan * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a bold and seductive book… Richly illustrated, with contributions from foremost French historians, it is set fair to become the authoritative history of intimacy in the early modern West. -- Lyndal Roper * Times Higher Education Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eIts broad chronological scope, its remarkable effective integration of essays by different historians, and above all its ability to represent the seemingly frivolous details of private life in a challengingly theoretical matrix make this an important and exciting work for historians of Early Modern Europe. -- Lawrence Wolff * Journal of Social History *\u003cbr\u003eThe new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series…masterfully translated by Arthur Goldhammer… 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\u003eIntroduction by Philippe Aries    1. Figures of Modernity by Yves Castan, Fran\u0026amp;ccdeil;ois Lebrun, Roger Chartier   Introduction by Roger Chartier   Politics and Private Life   The Two Reformations: Communal Devotion and Personal Piety   The Practical Impact of Writing    2. Forms of Privatization by Jacques Revel, Orest Ranum, Jean-Louis Flandrin, Jacques Gelis, Madelaine Foisil, Jean Marie Goulemot   Introduction by Roger Chartier   The Uses of Civility   The Refuges of Intimacy   Distinction through Taste   The Child: From Anonymity to Individuality   The Literature of Intimacy   Literary Practices: Publicizing the Private    3. Community, State, and Family: Trajectories and Tensions by Nicole Castan, Maurice Aymard, Alain Collomp, Daniel Fabre, Arlette Farge   Introduction by Roger Chartier   The Public and the Private   Friends and Neighbors   Families: Habitations and Cohabitations   Families: Privacy versus Custom   The Honor and Secrecy of Families    Epilogue by Roger Chartier    Notes   Bibliography   Credits   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865487520087,"sku":"9780674400023","price":41.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674400023.jpg?v=1722274206","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/passions-of-the-renaissance-9780674400023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}