The three-volume History of the Body, written by French, British and American anthropologists and cultural historians, takes a comprehensive look at the bodi...

France is used to considering itself the intellectual center of the world, a place where universal values of reason are cultivated. Today this idea is experi...

While Louis XIV was building Versailles, his contemporaries were trying to create a new way of life that was opposed to Versailles. Such an alternative for t...

At the time when Louis XIV was building Versailles, his contemporaries tried to create a new way of life that opposed Versailles.  Such an alternative for th...

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 leadershi...

The three-volume History of the Body, written by French, British and American anthropologists and cultural historians, takes a comprehensive look at the bodi...

One of the most striking metaphors for the formation of modern Western society was proposed by the classic sociologist Norbert Elias: he wrote about the “tam...