Edition: 2001
Pages: 530
Series: IR/L
ISBN: 9788842064923

Private Life

Philippe Ariès - Georges Duby (a cura di)

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There has always existed a specific place, well delineated, devoted to that part of our existence which in all languages is called private. An area of immunity, given over to reflection, to rest, where we each may abandon the weapons and defences with which it is wise to protect ourselves when we venture outside. An area where we can relax, be at ease, free from the protective armour which defends us from the exterior. This is our familiar, domestic and secret place. In this private space all we possess that is most precious, most private - belonging to us alone - is contained. All that we have been forbidden to reveal or parade because it may offend some public code of honour. Naturally enough contained within our home, locked and circumscribed, family life seems to be walled in. The fence protects a group, a complex social form, where inequality and contradictions seem to reign, where the power of men over women, of old over young, of the master over the servant is more easily perceived than it is outside. The ambition of this work is exactly that of revealing these slow or precipitous changes which over the course of time has characterised the concept and various aspects of private life. Georges Duby

The authors

Philippe Ariès

Philippe Ariès (1914-1984) was one of the most important French historians. Of his publications we mention, with Laterza: L'uomo e la morte dal medioevo a oggi (19893), Il tempo della storia (1987); with Georges Duby he edited the five volumes of Vita Privata (1986-88)

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Georges Duby

Georges Duby (b. 1919 d. 1996) is one of the greatest historians of the Middle Ages. For over twenty years he taught at the Collège de France. Together with Michelle Perrot, he edited the five volumes of the History of Women in The West and Images of Women. With Philippe Ariès he edited the Private Life series.

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