The five-volume History of Private Life is a comprehensive study created in the 1980s by a group of French, British and American scholars under the leadership of the renowned historians from the Annales School - Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby. The five-volume book covers the entire history of the West from Antiquity to the end of the 20th century. The third volume tells how Europe and America enter the Modern Age: awareness of the idea of individuality, the spread of literacy, the religious Reformation influence private life, making it truly private for the first time, changing attitudes towards marriage, children and friendship, faith , etiquette and politics.