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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... medieval tangles to impose clean grids on districts . One favorite device was to set a focal monument at the far end of an urban vista ; in Rome , sixteenth - century popes re - erected old Egyptian obelisks , stone needles once brought ...
... medieval elite , being rural , had invested little in urban real estate . The Renaissance skyline was very unlike ours . Many towns still had their medieval towers . These tall fingers of fortification had been com- mon in twelfth ...
... Medieval Health Handbook : Tacuinum Sanitatis . New York : George Braziller . Aretino , Pietro . 1973. Aretino's Dialogues . Trans . R. Rosenthal . New York : Ballan- tine Books . Brucker , Gene . 1971 ; reissue 1992. The Society of ...
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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 |