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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... secrets , might make their influence felt . ( See Chapter 4. ) Political activity often worked as social control . Renaissance politics was noneconomic exchange , a barter where material goods , services , power , prestige , position ...
... couriers as letters to the prince who paid their keep . These bulletins were not secret ; they were copied and distributed widely . Alongside written journalism was an oral mode with a wider Media , Literacy , and Schooling 141.
... secret marriage was legal and binding . From the medieval church's point of view , the couple and their obligations to one another were the center . The purposes of marriage were to procreate and to aid one another , especially toward ...
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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 |