Daily life in Renaissance Italy / Elizabeth S. Cohen and Thomas V. Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Elizabeth Storr, 1946- author.

Cohen, Thomas V. (Thomas Vance), 1942- author.

Series:

Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.

Greenwood Press daily life through history series, 1080-4749

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Italy--Social life and customs--To 1500.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Italy in the Renaissance

Society: who was who

Dangers

Family and other solidarities

Hierarchies

Moralities: religion and honor

Keeping order

Communicating: images and words

Spaces

Time

Life cycles: from birth through youth

Life cycles: from marriage through death

Houses, food, and clothing

Disease and health

Work

Play

Coming and going: Italy and the world

Last words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9798400637001

9798216071068

9781440856938

1440856931

OCLC:

1099546703