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A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War v. 4
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #454672 in Books
- Published on: 1990-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 713 pages
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Review
General readers as well as academic specialists will revel in the wealth of historical detail and insight offered here. Aries saw three basic forces contributing to the profound social changes of the early modern era: the rise of state power, the spread of literacy, and new forms of religious piety. Together, the essays address each of these realms from several angles, providing glimpses at everything from cookbooks to "charivaris," love letters to "lettres decachet," The pattern that emerges is the creation of a sphere of private life, thought, and feeling that was unknown in the Middle Ages.
