The History of Private Life. Volume 2. Europe from Feudalism to the Renaissance

The five-volume "History of Private Life" is a comprehensive study created in the 1980s by a group of French, British, and American scholars led by renowned historians from the Annales School - Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby. The five-volume work... covers the entire history of the West from Antiquity to the late 20th century. The second volume focuses on the private life of Europe during the High Middle Ages. The authors of the book explain how family life and social order changed compared to Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, how complex legal institutions related to everyday life, how the European individual was born, and how the life of the private person was reflected in literature.