Salisbury, Joyce E

Explores details of everyday life in nineteenth-century civilizations, providing information in the categories of domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including a historical overview and chronology of the period.

Explores details of everyday life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century civilizations, providing information in the categories of domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including a historical overview and chronology of the period.

Explores details of everyday life in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century civilizations, providing information in the categories of domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including a historical overview and chronology of the period.

Explores details of everyday life in medieval civilizations, providing information in the categories of domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including a historical overview and chronology of the period.

Explores details of everyday life in ancient civilizations, providing information in the categories of domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including a historical overview and chronology of the period.

Contains alphabetically arranged essays that examine the lives of 150 women of the ancient world, and includes an additional thirty entries that provide insight into various aspects of the ancient world, covering themes such as clothing, work, and sexuality.