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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... servants might participate in the economic activities of their masters as well as keep their houses . Even quite rich families seldom had more than one or two servants , although the numbers rose in the sixteenth century ; the more ...
... servants about town , trumpeting the family colors on their bodies . Family was a term with many meanings - some stretch- Who Is Family ? ing quite far across space and time - and the compo- sition of a family depended on which sense of ...
... servants , and other household women . Yet women had no monopoly on this domestic work . Men , especially servants and innkeepers , might shoulder some of it . Also , urban housewives might farm out some household labor to paid ...
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 |