Daily Life in Renaissance Italy
2nd Edition
Published on 12. September 2019
376 pages
978-1-4408-5693-8 (ISBN)
Description
A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations.
Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit the Renaissance Italian world (1400-1600). In clearly written chapters, the book moves from Renaissance Italy's geography to its society, and then to family. It also looks at hierarchies, moralities, devices for keeping social order, media and communications and the arts, space, time, the life cycle, material culture, health, and illness, and finishes with work and play.
This new edition is especially alert to the rich connections between Italy and the rest of Europe, and with Africa and Asia. The book synthesizes a great deal of recent scholarship on social and material history, paying additional attention to the arts and religion. Readers are given an inside view of people from every social class, elite and ordinary, men and women. Written for students of all levels, from secondary school up, it is also an accessible introduction for travelers to Italy.
Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit the Renaissance Italian world (1400-1600). In clearly written chapters, the book moves from Renaissance Italy's geography to its society, and then to family. It also looks at hierarchies, moralities, devices for keeping social order, media and communications and the arts, space, time, the life cycle, material culture, health, and illness, and finishes with work and play.
This new edition is especially alert to the rich connections between Italy and the rest of Europe, and with Africa and Asia. The book synthesizes a great deal of recent scholarship on social and material history, paying additional attention to the arts and religion. Readers are given an inside view of people from every social class, elite and ordinary, men and women. Written for students of all levels, from secondary school up, it is also an accessible introduction for travelers to Italy.
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Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
15 bw illus
File size
6,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-5693-8 (9781440856938)
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Elizabeth S. Cohen | Thomas V. Cohen
Daily Life in Renaissance Italy
Book
09/2019
2nd Edition
Greenwood Press
€79.00
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Persons
Elizabeth S. Cohen is professor of history at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Thomas V. Cohen is professor of history at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Thomas V. Cohen is professor of history at York University, Toronto, Canada.
Content
Preface to the Second Edition
Note on Chapter Notes
Timeline of Events
1. Italy in the Renaissance
2. Society: Who Was Who
3. Dangers
4. Family and Other Solidarities
5. Hierarchies
6. Moralities: Religion and Honor
7. Keeping Order
8. Communicating: Images and Words
9. Spaces
10. Time
11. Life Cycles: From Birth Through Youth
12. Life Cycles: From Marriage Through Death
13. Houses, Food, and Clothing
14. Disease and Health
15. Work
16. Play
17. Coming and Going: Italy and the World
18. Last Words
Resources and Bibliography
Index
Note on Chapter Notes
Timeline of Events
1. Italy in the Renaissance
2. Society: Who Was Who
3. Dangers
4. Family and Other Solidarities
5. Hierarchies
6. Moralities: Religion and Honor
7. Keeping Order
8. Communicating: Images and Words
9. Spaces
10. Time
11. Life Cycles: From Birth Through Youth
12. Life Cycles: From Marriage Through Death
13. Houses, Food, and Clothing
14. Disease and Health
15. Work
16. Play
17. Coming and Going: Italy and the World
18. Last Words
Resources and Bibliography
Index
