Record details

• ISBN: 0674399757
• ISBN: 9780674399754
• Physical Description: [1 volumes]
• Publisher: Cambridge (Mass) ; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-655.-Includes index; contents: v. 1. from pagan Rome to Byzantium/Paul Veyne, editor; Translation of: Histoire de la vie priviee; Translation of: de l'empire romain a l'an mil).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-655) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Roman Empire: From mother's womb to last will and testament; Marriage; Slavery; Household and its freed slaves; Where public life was private; Work and leisure; Patrimony; Pleasures and excesses; Tranquilizers / Paul Veyne -- Late antiquity: Introduction; The "Wellborn" few; Person and group in Judiasm and early Christianity; Church and leadership; The challenge of the desert; East and West: the new marital morality / by Peter Brown -- Private life and domestic architecture in Roman Africa: The Roman home; Some theoretical considerations; Domestic architecture of the ruling class; "Private" and "public" spaces: the components of the Domus; How the Domus worked; Conclusion / by Yvon Thebert -- Early Middle Ages in the West: Historical introduction; Private life conquers state and society; Body and heart; Violence and death; Sacred and secret; Conclusion / by Michel Rouche -- Byzantium in the tenth and eleventh centuries: The Byzantine Empire; Private space; Self and others; The inner life; Private belief; Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Language Note:

Translation of: Histoire de la vie privée.

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Subject:

Manners and customs.
Families > History.
Civilization > History.
Rome > Social conditions > History.
Byzantine Empire > Social conditions > History.
Civilization.
Families.
Manners and customs.
Social conditions
Byzantine Empire.
Rome (Empire)

Genre:

History.