num_pages: 655
description: This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a brugeoning self-consciousness. It explores the Renaissance era which was characterized by an upsurge in private writings and a new concentration of the self in literature and art.
language: English
title: A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance
titlecomplete: A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance
genres: Social Science, Historical, France, Cultural, Reference, European History, Nonfiction, Medieval, Art, History
ratings_count: 216
series: A History of Private Life, Historia de la vida privada en 10 tomos
publisher: Belknap Press