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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... land was its key resource . Many Italians owned land , but , in much of the countryside , most of it belonged to small numbers of large landholders . Typically , rural society divided sharply into those few who owned the bulk of the land ...
... land . Some peasants owned land , but mostly it belonged to landlords or , in rougher country , was commons . For access to land , peasants normally paid money rent or delivered a share of their yield to the owner . They might also ...
... land , dense with walled gardens , was unlike the open plow land farther out from town . The wealthy , crowded North was unlike the sparsely populated , often poorer South . The geography of land tenure also counted ; solid share ...
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 |