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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... premodern version was bleaker about a soul's chances . Preachers , confessors , and devout books urged a life of anxious , vigilant self - control , to master sin . Hope there was , but tempered with a darker vision of the moral cosmos ...
... Premodern Italians held deeply the values that guided their choices . Yet their behavior corre- sponded to these rules in as mixed and nuanced a way as does our own conduct when it heeds our moral strictures . In premodern Italy , two ...
... premodern European youngsters suf- fered . A pioneer in the field , Philippe Ariès , argued that before the sev- enteenth century children were treated simply as small adults , for they had no special identity or place . For some ...
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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 |