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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... lived by the much more populous lower classes . Fur- thermore , many traits made up a person's place in society , and there were many intersecting hierarchies . We need to imagine this social struc- ture not as a simple , linear ladder ...
... lived quite modestly , though few faced the sharp economic hardships that periodically devastated their parishioners . Besides these pastoral clerics , the church also relied on the efforts of clergy of another sort : men and women who ...
... lived together . But from time to time , a ceremony , a tragedy , an ambition would lead Italians to call on the more scattered family to ob- serve or assist . The co - resident family could take a number of forms . Many people lived in ...
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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 |