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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... Peasants were the most numerous group of Renaissance Ital- Peasants ians . In families they lived on and worked the land . Some peasants owned land , but mostly it belonged to landlords or , in rougher country , was commons . For access ...
... peasantry as a whole . Yet some families fared better than others , whether through richer hold- ings , harder work , less greedy landlords , more fortunate timing of births and deaths , or just plain luck . Some peasants lived well ...
... peasants or impeding the movement of sup- plies . A siege could starve a city . International politics could block ship- ments . As in all premodern Europe , there was a strong link between hunger and demography . Where population rose ...
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 |