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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... zones , self- help did indeed recede , so that , if not by 1600 , at least by 1700 , life had grown less sanguinary . This evolution was both gradual and easily set back . For instance , in many zones , the end of the 1500s , a time of ...
... zones , and there were big game enough to keep noble hunters happy . In 1515 , on a single expedition , Pope Leo X and his party bagged fifty deer and twenty boar not far from Rome . Some of the most extensive forests of the Venetian ...
... zones . In general , domestic space , especially the kitchen , is female , while public places - the street , the square , and the inn - are male . But the well and the collective wash tubs ( or river bank ) , though out in the open ...
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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 |