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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... reasons , to cover contemporary European phi- losophy , theology , political theory , and natural sciences . Scholars have also pushed the term much further , into zones where it loses much of its initial , classicizing sense , as in ...
... reasons for sharing beds and for living at close quarters . Winter weather , when one huddled under infested wraps , fostered epidemics . The third and by far the deadliest insect - borne pestilence was the bu- bonic plague . This ...
... reasons . First , your right foot provides strength and stability for your body , and since it is its fortress , you should do this movement with your left foot , because it is weaker than your right ; now this is the first reason . The ...
Inhoudsopgave
From Birth Through Adolescence | 177 |
From Marriage Through Death | 199 |
Houses Food and Clothing | 215 |
Copyright | |
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Daily Life in Renaissance Italy Elizabeth Storr Cohen,Thomas Vance Cohen Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2001 |