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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... group of rich families emerging out of international commerce , banking , and manufacturing . A new urban upper class that we call patricians emerged from the coa- lescence of these two groups : noble and mercantile . During the Renais ...
... groups— the friars with their brethren , the confraternities of laity , the magistrates , the guilds . Within each group , the best went first . Thus , the whole parade was an ambulatory image of the local hierarchy . The order of a ...
... groups that hitherto had hogged useful knowledge to themselves . In fact , however , the same two centuries that ushered print in also saw an ever sharper distinction between high culture and low and ever more closure of elites ...
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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 |