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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... girls making lace , gathered in their chairs around a fifth who entertains them from a book on their matronly ... girl next door , used both written words and drawings to communicate his heart's desire . His mother , having discovered ...
... girls were not routinely locked up and shut away . Adolescent boys ' experience was rather different from Male Teenagers that of their female agemates . The males ' growing ca- pacities , though potentially destructive , did not invite ...
... girls over the age of fourteen , of good and " honest " local parentage ; later , " foreigners " too could apply . Annually , on the feast of the Annunciation , the candidates , demurely dressed , paraded through the neighborhood ...
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 |