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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... wealth , and prestige by their own merits , but birth and inher- itance often counted for much more , and personal ... wealth , and prestige - determine status . At a closer glance , none of these three was simple in the Renaissance ...
... wealth and power , and hence the prestige , of the old , for it was only on inher- iting that the next generation laid hands on much property . Where most wealth was inherited , those who made the wills necessarily commanded the ...
... Wealth , reputation , and , not rarely , family might also count . Sometimes only membership in one elite body granted admission to the ballot in another . Thus , the pinnacles of society readily became an interlocking directorate of ...
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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 |