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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... body displayed class . Elite males cultivated agility in fencing and horsemanship . Athletic skill gave them easy elastic bearing . Upper - class women did no sports but danced and aspired to elegance in carriage . Renaissance elites ...
... body and sexuality , see Sara Matthews Grieco , “ The Body , Appearance , and Sexuality " in A History of Women in the West , v . 3 , Re- naissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes , ed . N. Z. Davis and A. Farge ( Cambridge , MA : Harvard ...
... body . The four humors ( body fluids : blood , phlegm , black and yellow bile ) were out of healthy equilibrium . Each humor combined two factors : hot or cold , wet or dry . Thus , if sick- ness struck , the goal was to restore ...
Inhoudsopgave
From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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