Presents aspects of family life in the preindustrial Western world, including households of the wealthy and the poor, courtship and marriage, and the care and training of children.
The classic American novel—winner of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize—now re-published for the 100th anniversary of James Agee’s birthOne of Time’s All-Time 100 Best NovelsA Penguin ClassicPublished in 1957,...
Ariès traces Western man's attitudes toward mortality from the early medieval conception of death as the familiar collective destiny of the human race to the modern tendency, so pronounced in...
Medieval man thought about death a great deal and his/her way of life and values were influenced by it. The author covers deaths by battle, execution, and the plague. He follows with burial customs...
Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other major authors who are today well represented in English translations. But much...