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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... cities , killing a third or a half of the populace , or even more , in a month or two . Further bouts of plague ... cities in the Middle Ages had often won political independence and come to control the surrounding countryside . By ...
... cities varied in origins and evolution . Depending on the place , this class might include urban - dwelling members of the rural , feu- dal nobility . In the Middle Ages , some cities , such as Florence , greatly feared the power of ...
... cities had a patron saint , the chief protector and focus of civic religion , who usually resided in the cathedral . Mean- while , the Virgin , babe in lap , smiled down from many street corners or sat in a little roadside shrine ...
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 |