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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... sexual maturity , although its arrival was not sharply defined or much remarked . Boys , sometimes as young as ten , engaged in sexual encounters for which courts might assign a mea- sure of legal responsibility . Not until age fourteen ...
... sexual relationship . Before the Council of Trent tightened policy , the combination of agree- ment and sexual companionship was , in many people's minds , binding , like a marriage . Once the pair had " carnal knowledge " of one ...
... sexual order , as it distracted men from seducing chaste women . Furthermore , in the eyes of honor , unlike the sexuality of fe- males , that of unmarried males - unless directed toward other men , as Florentine civic authorities , in ...
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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 |