A review by naiapard
A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance by
5.0
This book was really something else. I should have started with the first book in the series but it is quite a hard to find, even in better circumstances (than a frecking pandemic).
It is preoccupied by the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and how those periods helped the concept of privacy develop into what has become today. It may have stemmed from the way politics were done (figures!).
They followed the evolution of certain laws that gradually introduced in their vernacular concepts that entailed property-privatization—(and more than that) the self. The individual became a thing .
One was represented by his own deeds and actions and not so much by his community (that is a crass simplification because people still identified with a community- for example their recognized themselves as Catholics, but they started being more weary of those with which they made contact—you were no longer able to just stroll in one`s courtyard and expect lodging over night and/or food).
Another factor is the growing alphabetization of the population (this book is a study based on the French society-history), but do not imagine that those numbers were sky rocketing to the level of the current statistics. They are talking of people able to sign themselves (and that did not necessarily mean that they could write if they could read).
If you find yourself in need of a non-fiction that is both pleasantly read and at the same time quite informative this may be it.
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It is preoccupied by the Renaissance and the Enlightenment and how those periods helped the concept of privacy develop into what has become today. It may have stemmed from the way politics were done (figures!).
They followed the evolution of certain laws that gradually introduced in their vernacular concepts that entailed property-privatization—(and more than that) the self. The individual became a thing .
One was represented by his own deeds and actions and not so much by his community (that is a crass simplification because people still identified with a community- for example their recognized themselves as Catholics, but they started being more weary of those with which they made contact—you were no longer able to just stroll in one`s courtyard and expect lodging over night and/or food).
Another factor is the growing alphabetization of the population (this book is a study based on the French society-history), but do not imagine that those numbers were sky rocketing to the level of the current statistics. They are talking of people able to sign themselves (and that did not necessarily mean that they could write if they could read).
If you find yourself in need of a non-fiction that is both pleasantly read and at the same time quite informative this may be it.
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