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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... wives , and of parents and children - illustrates Relationships their complexity . Husbands wielded undisputed author- ity over their spouses , as over children and servants . Commentaries on optimal family life , written by elite men ...
... wives , not only temperately for " just correc- tion , " but excessively . Occasionally women had to flee . Also , not infrequently , men abandoned their wives and children - sometimes de- liberately , sometimes through inadvertence . Wives ...
... wives even to see the account books . But Florence's intensely patriarchal practices may not have applied elsewhere . While , in Florence , female control of property was subject , if sometimes nominally , to male supervision , in other ...
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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 |