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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... usually understood the rules and rituals and knew how to use them . Of all state organs , the criminal courts tried hardest to control society . There the rules tilted sharply against the suspect . Examined in a closed room , with ...
... usually resided in the cathedral . Mean- while , the Virgin , babe in lap , smiled down from many street corners or sat in a little roadside shrine , where citizens paid their respects with small gifts and burning candles . These ...
... usually sick rats on the move that brought the disease to an uninfected , vulnerable rat population , from which it spread to humans only when most of the local rats took sick and died . That is why ships , often rat infested , were so ...
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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 |