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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... domestic service . Where workplace and home merged , servants might participate in the economic activities of their masters as well as keep their houses . Even quite rich families seldom had more than one or two servants , although the ...
... domestic space was porous in several ways . Rooms served multiple purposes ; people came and went - not just fam ... domestic elegance supported energetic and artful production of wall painting , ceramics , metalwork , and ornamented ...
... domestic labor with a range of productive activities . Housekeeping itself imposed an endless string of tasks . Pre- paring , serving , cleaning away , and conserving food ; caring for , teaching , and disciplining children ; fetching ...
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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 |