Table of Contents

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 Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Paul Veyne is Professor at the College de France.

Reviews

From reviews of A History of Private Life:
The new emphasis on the history of everybody has now been consecrated in [this] ambitious five-volume series...Copious illustrative materials--paintings, drawings, caricatures, and photographs, all cannily chosen and wittily captioned to display domestic life...Magnificent.

-- Roger Shattuck * New York Times Book Review *
From reviews of A History of Private Life:
This series has deservedly attracted huge praise from historians of all hues for its scholarly imagination and beautiful presentation.

-- Andrew Freedman * Financial Times *