Daily Life in Renaissance Italy
eBook - ePub

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Daily Life in Renaissance Italy

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781440856921
eBook ISBN
9798216071068

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Note on Chapter Notes
  8. Timeline of Events
  9. 1. Italy in the Renaissance
  10. 2. Society: Who Was Who
  11. 3. Dangers
  12. 4. Family and Other Solidarities
  13. 5. Hierarchies
  14. 6. Moralities: Religion and Honor
  15. 7. Keeping Order
  16. 8. Communicating: Images and Words
  17. 9. Spaces
  18. 10. Time
  19. 11. Life Cycles: From Birth Through Youth
  20. 12. Life Cycles: From Marriage Through Death
  21. 13. Houses, Food, and Clothing
  22. 14. Disease and Health
  23. 15. Work
  24. 16. Play
  25. 17. Coming and Going: Italy and the World
  26. 18. Last Words
  27. Resources and Bibliography
  28. Index