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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... Christian morality , which had a subversive streak that often undercut both lay values and many institutions that governed Italian life . This tension between sacred ethics and everyday life was ancient and was and is in many ways ...
... Christian art , some of it narrative and much of it didactic , ornamented houses , street - corner shrines , and countless churches and chapels . Italians recognized their familiar saints , posing with their standard emblems , and ...
... Christian morality was keen on proper observance . Islam , one sometimes says , is less an orthodoxy — a set of doctrines— than an orthopraxis — a code of right conduct . Although Latin Christi- anity had its orthodoxy , in daily life ...
Inhoudsopgave
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 |