History of Private Life, Volume I: from Pagan Rome to Byzantium

Name: History of Private Life, Volume I: from Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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ISBN: 9780674399747

ISBN-10: 0674399749

ISBN-13: 9780674399747

Edition: 1987

Authors: Paul Veyne, Arthur Goldhammer, Phillippe Ariï¿½s, Georges Duby, Phillippe Ariï¿½s

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First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves--from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family, the roles of women, chastity and contraception, techniques of childbirth, homosexuality, religion, the meaning of virtue, and the separation of private and public spaces. The emergence of Christianity in the West and the triumph of Christian morality with its emphasis on abstinence, celibacy, and austerity is startlingly contrasted with the profane and…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 7.01" wide x 8.94" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.



Foreword by Georges Duby


Introduction




Roman Empire



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



Late Antiquity



Introduction


The ""Wellborn"" Few Person and Group in Judaism and Early Christianity


Church and Leadership


The Challenge of the Desert East and West