2nd Edition
by Elizabeth S. Cohen (Author), Thomas V. Cohen (Author)
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.
• Brings the Italian Renaissance to contemporary readers.
• Demonstrates in-depth research in content that includes archival sources
• Includes images to visually support the chapters and bring the text to life
• Presents reader-friendly prose that is both clear and highly polished
