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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... complex ways for the rest of the globe , that hundreds of scholars have studied a wealth of details about its history . Much of this research bears , directly or at short remove , on the story of the daily life of Italians in that ...
... complex set of rites and institutions that made contact with almost every aspect of daily life . At the same time , Italians , like many other Mediter- ranean peoples , ascribed to notions of honor . Honor provided its own ethics and a ...
... complex sym- biosis with its moral values . There , as in any place and time , institutions fostered values that in their turn propped up institutions , in ways so tightly woven that we can hardly say which shaped the other more . Also ...
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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 |