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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... remember rightly " or " I got to know him before Lent just past . " When obliged , people had concepts and terms to be more specific , but for the most part sequential and more general expressions of time were the practice.1 Renaissance ...
... remember that most people stored their belongings in rather plain and functional pieces . Besides these larger pieces of furniture , a Renaissance home also con- tained a motley of other equipment and goods that served the needs of the ...
... remember that Italians saw death , animal and human , all the time . What amused them here was not agony but the unpredictable Franc fight and the ticklish confusion of the boundary between. 288 Daily Life in Renaissance Italy.
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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 |