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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Elizabeth Storr Cohen, Thomas Vance Cohen. 14 Disease and Healing Disease was a facet of the natural world that we still face and fight , but it threatened the people of the Renaissance infinitely more than us . The difference between ...
... disease to an uninfected , vulnerable rat population , from which it spread to humans only when most of the local rats took sick and died . That is why ships , often rat infested , were so dangerous and quarantine so useful . This ...
... Disease and the Disease of Fear , " in Fear in Early Modern Society , ed . W. G. Naphy and P. Roberts ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 1997 ) , 192–194 . 2. On the Tuscan health inspectors , see Carlo Cipolla , Miasmas and ...
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From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
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