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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... dowry , making good the lost virginity , to help the young woman wed another despite her depreciated purity . AN HONOR KILLING IN THE FAMILY Here is a story from 1555 , from the Sabine mountains east of Rome , told by Nuntio di Polisena ...
... dowry , to the husband and his family . The dowry , complemented by a trousseau of linens and household wares , was a sizable chunk of assets , usually partly in cash and credits and partly in goods and sometimes real estate , that ...
... dowry often took more effort and more resources than just two young people possessed . * The dowry , the largest piece of the property exchange , could call on assets from a network of sources , both male and female . While fathers had ...
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 |