"History of private life" by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby

I am reading at this moment "History of private life" by Philippe Aries and Georges Duby. It is a book related to the ritual of organizing the burgeoisie's private life. In that centuries (18th/19th) women charged with this dull duty. They were not only the main responsible for making arrangement or preparations for private life, but also the main capable of expressing feelings. If you take a brief glance at a picture of that period, you are likely to see the typical family pose: the parents and children under a tree, in a natural framework. Another outstanding characteristic of that period is the dinner's time. They used to have dinner early in the afternoon, they were frequently at the table at five o'clock. It this a curiosity because nowadays we are not at the table until ten. To sum up, daily life habits and the roles of the family have changed throughout the years and next generations will go on transforming it.

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