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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... father could take steps , he need not languish in life- long infamy nor was the daughter doomed to prostitution . Though it might cost a larger dowry , a husband often could be found . A compro- mised woman without a dowry was in a ...
... Fathers sometimes did this drastic deed ; it is hard to say how often . When such murders do surface in the records of ... father took his daughter by the elbow and , under the eyes of the whole village , led her across the field to her ...
... fathers speak of choosing what to call their progeny , but mothers must some- times also have helped pick . Certainly , when , as not infrequently , the father was elsewhere at the time of birth , the mother or even , in some ...
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 |