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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... status . Thus , to be a child , an adult , or an old person affected what one must , could , could not , should not , or need not do . For women , the status of wife was in important ways the most con- strained stage of life ; widowhood ...
... status by status , beginning with the clergy , a social order with its own divisions and hierarchy that ministered to the Christian flock . Next we turn to the countryside , where dwelled the vast majority of this quite urbanized people ...
... Status For the nobility , work subverted status . So when lords sold the products of their estates or oversaw commercial invest- ments , to them it was not work . Happy to strain and sweat at fencing or the pursuit of deer and boar ...
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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 |