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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... listen to sermons . At its end , on the night of December 24 , the vigil of the Nativity , people customarily went to church . Services were also held on Christmas Day ; according to the traveler Montaigne , in Rome , the pope ...
... listen better to these youthful cries made these events notable . In other situations , mendicant preachers drew on the boys ' confraternities to organize pha- lanxes of adolescents , sometimes dressed as angels , who processed around ...
... listen and react , to learn and affirm , to find excitement and solace . Even where religion or politics were at stake , the experience par- took of play . Italian Catholicism had dramatic genius . It deployed spectacle to praise God ...
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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 |