Daily Life in Renaissance ItalyGreenwood Press, 2001 - 316 pagina's
Recipes, profiles of actual individuals, and over 40 illustrations help bring the period to life. Learn what they ate, what their homes were like, how they spent their leisure time, what their work was like, and much more. Modern readers will be surprised to find fundamental similarities between our lives today and the lives of these people living over 500 years ago, as well as to discover that many of the perceptions they may have of this time period are inaccurate. |
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... chapter of its own . ( See Chapter 14. ) MAN - MADE VIOLENCE AND HARDSHIPS Personal Violence and Crime Many threats to bodily safety and property were social in origin . Violence was common and much felt , by both travelers and resident ...
... Chapter 7. ) CONCLUSION All sorts of forces combined to foster anxiety and fear . Some were economic , and others political , medical , social , natural , or divine . This state of affairs did not at all reduce Renaissance Italians to ...
... Chapter 2. Output was mostly small scale and often domestic ; large estates and great industrial workshops were rare . Although expert workers sometimes specialized , the daily and sea- sonal rounds of labor demanded flexibility and ...
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From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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Daily Life in Renaissance Italy Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Thomas Vance Cohen Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2001 |