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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... French philosopher Montaigne , left in- comparable records of the little things - the taste of wine and food in the inns , the courtesies , songs , dances , games , and festivals that gave daily life its savor , sound , movement , and ...
... French pox . " The French , who abhorred this credit , rather called it " the Neapolitan dis- ease . " Both appellations made good sense , for the malady seems first to have appeared , dramatically , as if from nowhere , when a French ...
... French , The Great Pox : The French Disease in Renaissance Europe ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1997 ) , 205-206 . 8. Ibid . , 134-144 . 9. For a lay exorcist , see Thomas Cohen and Elizabeth Cohen , Words and Deeds in ...
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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 |