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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... RURAL SOCIETY The economic base of rural society was agriculture , and land was its key resource . Many Italians owned land , but , in much of the countryside , most of it belonged to small numbers of large landholders . Typically , rural ...
... rural community . Certainly local officials could demand and punish in the name of external authority . At the same time , they mediated conflicts between the village and the larger world and between contentious locals . Peasants were ...
... Rural Vignette For a better sense of Renaissance work , let us follow some workers through their day . As usual , court pa- pers supply vignettes . Our first trial shows the texture of rural labor . In the hill town of Fara , Agostino ...
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 |