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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... plague - ridden ports anchor in isolation for forty ( quaranta ) days . The practice was often effective ; the wait ... plague , was to seal up a house if one resident fell sick , and not unseal it until the dying stopped . Due to the ...
... plague , a spectacular killer , was not alone . Historians find it hard to lay out a statistical balance of its ... plague far outweighed the others . Fifteenth - century Florentine records dating from six years bracketed by plague ...
... plague . This utterly terrifying disease first returned to Europe in 1347 after eight centuries of reprieve ; it afflicted Italy and the rest of Western Europe for more than three hundred years and then , for reasons still hotly debated ...
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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 |