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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... female honor lay elsewhere . For women especially , and often for children and de- pendent young men as well , honor , as virtue , often Female Honor hinged less on what one did than on what one refrained from . Self - restraint ...
... Female and male honor intersected in the collective reputation of the house and family . Nothing so distilled the ... female will and strong female appetite , easily succumbed to seduction , bringing calamity on self and family . When a ...
... female sellers . Certainly these gen- eral patterns held for Renaissance Italy . That is why so often in paintings of great processions , resolutely male , the windows are full of female faces ; the sill was their habitual boundary . In ...
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 |