Book Description
This volume looks at all aspects of life during the of Renaissance period.
Author : Kathryn Hinds
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761444831
This volume looks at all aspects of life during the of Renaissance period.
Author : Elizabeth Storr Cohen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Discover what life was like for ordinary people in Renaissance Italy through this unique resource that paints a full portrait of everday living.
Author : Paula Hohti-Erichsen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9048550262
Did ordinary Italians have a 'Renaissance'? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenthcentury visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.
Author : Patricia Fumerton
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812291182
It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti. Items and activities as familiar as mirrors, books, horses, everyday speech, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food preparation look decidedly less familiar when seen through the eyes of Renaissance men and women. In Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, such scholars as Judith Brown, Frances Dolan, Richard Helgerson, Debora Shuger, Don Wayne, and Stephanie Jed illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in just such common matters of everyday life during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent. Organized around the categories of materiality, women, and transgression—and constantly crossing these categories—the book promotes and challenges readers' thinking of the everyday. While not ignoring the aristocratic, it foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even as it presents the unusual details of their existence. What results is an expansive, variegated, and sometimes even contradictory vision in which the strange becomes not alien but a defining mark of everyday life.
Author : Eric Russell Chamberlin
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Giovanni Caselli
Publisher : Peter Bedrick Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1998-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872265646
Presents, in text and illustrations, a range of people whose way of life reveals various aspects of the society developing in Europe and America from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300102364
"As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Fabrizio Nevola
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300175434
A radical new perspective on the dynamics of urban life in Renaissance Italy The cities of Renaissance Italy comprised a network of forces shaping both the urban landscape and those who inhabited it. In this illuminating study, those complex relations are laid bare and explored through the lens of contemporary urban theory, providing new insights into the various urban centers of Italy’s transition toward modernity. The book underscores how the design and structure of public space during this transformative period were intended to exercise a certain measure of authority over its citizens, citing the impact of architecture and street layout on everyday social practices. The ensuing chapters demonstrate how the character of public space became increasingly determined by the habits of its residents, for whom the streets served as the backdrop of their daily activities. Highlighting major hubs such as Rome, Florence, and Bologna, as well as other lesser-known settings, Street Life in Renaissance Italy offers a new look at this remarkable era.
Author : Kathy Lynn Emerson
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0974106879
For the writer and anyone else interested in Renaissance England (1485-1649), this remarkable resource covers the day-to-day details: fashions, food, customs, family life, the Royal Court, law and punishment, holidays, city and rural living, seafaring and land occupations, alehouses, marriage, birth and death rituals—and a great deal more, written with authority in a wonderfully readable style. Included are bibliographies and internet addresses for further research. Nonfiction Historical Resource by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by Writer’s Digest Books
Author : Sandra Sider
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0195330846
The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man (though not of woman) and on human potential distinguished the Renaissance from the previous Middle Ages. In poetry and literature, individual thought and action were prevalent, while depictions of the human form became a touchstone of Renaissance art. In science and medicine the macrocosm and microcosm of the human condition inspired remarkable strides in research and discovery, and the Earth itself was explored, situating Europeans within a wider realm of possibilities. Organized thematically, the Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe covers all aspects of life in Renaissance Europe: History; religion; art and visual culture; architecture; literature and language; music; warfare; commerce; exploration and travel; science and medicine; education; daily life.