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Everyday Life in History
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Order of Contents
Whole of History
Friendly
Books
Handbook
Lives
Italy
England
France
Special Topics
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Whole of History
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Friendly
Netzley, Patricia – Life during the Renaissance in The Way People Live (Lucent Books, 1998) 90 pp. ToC
Hinds, Kathryn – Everyday Life in the Renaissance (Marshall Cavendish, Benchmark, 2010) 325 pp. ToC
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Books
1900’s
Chamberlin, E.R. – Everyday Life in Renaissance Times (London: Batsford, 1965) 200 pp. ToC
Mason, Antony – Uncovering History: Everyday Life in Renaissance Times (2006) 40 pp.
Bouwsma, William – The Culture of Renaissance Humanism (American Historical Association, 1973) 44 pp.
Husa, VaÌclav – Traditional Crafts & Skills: Life & Work in Mediaeval & Renaissance Times (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1967) 225 pp. ToC
Gail, Marzieh – Life in the Renaissance (Random House, 1968) 160 pp. ToC
Marcovitz, Hal – Life During the Renaissance in Living History (Reference Point Press, 2016) 95 pp. ToC
Davies, Marie-Helene – Reflections of Renaissance England: Life, Thought & Religion Mirrored in Illustrated Pamphlets 1535-1640 (Pickwick Publications, 1986) 455 pp. ToC
eds. Cohn Jr. & Epstein – Portraits of Medieval & Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy (Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996) 475 pp. ToC
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Handbook
Sider, Sandra – Handbook to life in Renaissance Europe (Oxford Univ. Press, 2005) 400 pp. ToC
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Lives of Prominent Figures
Books
Hare, Christopher – Life & Letters in the Italian Renaissance (London: Stanley Paul, 1915) 345 pp. ToC
Checksfield, M.M. – Portraits of Renaissance Life & Thought (Longmans, Green & Co., 1966) 255 pp. ToC
Burns, Cathleen – The Man of the Renaissance Interpreted through the Life & Plays of Christopher Marlowe M.A. thesis (Boston Univ. Libraries, 1941) 390 pp. ToC
Preface: “The purpose of this paper will be to show why Christopher Marlowe – Cambridge scholar, government agent, swordsman, sceptic, elusive man-about -London, and short-lived prodigy of the Elizabethan theatrical scene – may be said to have given a pretty well-rounded illustration of the man of the Renaissance. Evidence for this view will be derived from Marlowe’s own brief and spectacular career and the careers of certain male characters in his plays.”
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Italy
Friendly
Pierotti-Cei, Luisa – Life in Italy during the Renaissance (Liber, 1977) 140 pp. no ToC
Mee, Jr., Charles – The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (American Heritage Publishing Co., 1975) 125 pp. ToC
Time Life – What Life was Like at the Rebirth of Genius (Time Life Books, 1999) 1765 pp. ToC
ed. Nesbitt, Mark – Living in Renaissance Italy in Exploring Cultural History (Greenhaven Press, 2005) 155 pp. ToC
Bell, Rudolph – How to Do it: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999) 383 pp. ToC
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Books
Cohen, Elizabeth & Thomas – Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (Greenwood Press, 2001) 330 pp. ToC
Cognasso, Francesco – Life & Culture in Piedmont, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Turin: RIV-SKF, Officine di Villar Perosa, S.P.A., 1970) 460 pp. no ToC
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City of Rome
Short & Friendly
Barghusen, Joan – Daily Life in Ancient & Modern Rome (Runestone Press, 1999) 60 pp.
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Book
Bell, Rudolph – Street Life in Renaissance Rome: a Brief History with Documents (Bedford, 2013) 185 pp.
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City of Venice & Area
Brown, Patricia – Art & Life in Renaissance Venice (Pearson, 1997) 170 pp. ToC
Holberton, Paul – Palladio’s Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside (John Murray, 1990) 265 pp. ToC
Grubb, James S. – Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private & Public Life in the Veneto (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996) 360 pp. ToC
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City of Florence
Outlines
Montgomery, Helen B. – Life in Old Florence (Univ. of the State of New York, 1895) 38 pp. no ToC
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Books
Scaife, Walter – Florentine Life during the Renaissance (John Hopkins Press, 1893) 255 pp. ToC
Lucas-Dubreton, J. – Daily Life in Florence [Italy] in the Time of the Medici [1230-1737] (Macmillan, 1961) 330 pp. ToC
Brinton, Selwyn – The Renaissance: its Art & Life: Florence (1450-1550) (Goupil & Co., 1908) 470 pp. no ToC
Eckstein, Nicholas – The District of the Green Dragon: Neighborhood Life & Social Change in Renaissance Florence (Firenze: L.S. Olschki, 1995) 305 pp. no ToC
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Sicily
Wærn, Cecilia – Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of Life & Art in the Middle Ages (London: Duckworth, 1910) 535 pp. ToC
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England
Books
Emerson, Kathy – The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England from 1485-1649 (1996) 285 pp. ToC
Hall, H.R. Wilton – Social Life in England through the Centuries (Blackie & Son, 1927) 250 pp. ToC
Synge, M.B. – A Short History of Social Life in England (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922) 445 pp. ToC
Briggs, Asa – A Social History of England (Penguin, 1985) 310 pp. ToC
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Anthology of Primary Sources
Morgan, R.B. – Readings in English Social History from Pre-Roman Days to A.D. 1887 in 1 vol. (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1923) 685 pp. ToC
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1558-1603
Book
Rowse, A. L. – The Elizabethan Renaissance: the Life of the Society (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1971) 340 pp. ToC
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Sex
Whole of History
Bloch, Ivan – Sexual Life in England Past & Present tr. William H. Forstern (London: ARCO Publications, 1958) 675 pp. ToC
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City of London
Richardson, John – London & its People: a Social History from Medieval Times to the Present Day (Barrie & Jenkins, 1995) 360 pp. ToC
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France
Book
Febvre, Lucien – Life in Renaissance France (Harvard Univ. Press, 1977) 175 pp. ToC
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Special Topics
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Jews
Families
Women
Elderly
Education
Religion
Cities
Sanitation
Military
On Books
Music
Shoes
Science
Astrology
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Jews
Bonfil, Robert – Jewish Life in Renaissance Italy (Univ. of California Press, 1994) 330 pp. ToC
Ruderman, David – The World of a Renaissance Jew: the Life & Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol in Monographs of the Hebrew Union College (Hebrew Union College Press, 1981) 285 pp.
Da Pisa, Yehiel Nissim – Banking & Finance among Jews in Renaissance Italy: a Critical Edition of The Eternal Life (Haye Olam) ed. Gilbert Rosenthal (Bloch, 1962) 285 pp.
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Families
Grubb, James S. – Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private & Public Life in the Veneto (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1996) 360 pp. ToC
Kent, Francis W. – Household & Lineage in Renaissance Florence: the Family Life of the Capponi, Ginori, & Rucellai (Princeton Univ. Press, 1977) 340 pp.
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Women
eds. Scaraffia & Zarri – Women & Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present (Harvard Univ. Press, 1999) 420 pp. ToC
Maclean, Ian – The Renaissance Notion of Woman: a Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism & Medical Science in European Intellectual Life (Cambrdige Univ. Press, 1980) 125 pp.
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Elderly
Skenazi, Cynthia – Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne (2013) 180 pp. ToC
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Education
Dawson, John C. – Toulouse in the Renaissance; the Floral Games; University & Student Life: Etienne Dolet (1532-1534), pt. 1 (Floral Games) PhD diss. (Columbia Univ. Press, 1921) 105 pp. no ToC
Hussain, Amjad – A Social History of Education in the Muslim World: from the Prophetic Era to Ottoman Times [AD 610-1924] (Ta-Ha Publishers, 2013) 270 pp. ToC
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Religion
Lacroix, Paul – Military & Religious Life in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1964) 570 pp. ToC
Davies, Marie-Helene – Reflections of Renaissance England: Life, Thought & Religion Mirrored in Illustrated Pamphlets 1535-1640 (Pickwick Publications, 1986) 455 pp. ToC
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Cities
Book
eds. Zimmerman, Susan & Ronald Weissman – Urban Life in the Renaissance (Univ. of Delaware Press, 1988) 300 pp. ToC
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Sanitation
Article
Thorndyke, Lynn – “Sanitation, Baths & Street-Cleaning in the Middle Ages & Renaissance” in Speculum, vol. 3, no. 2 (Apr., 1928), pp. 192-203
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Military
Lacroix, Paul – Military & Religious Life in the Middle Ages & the Renaissance (Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1964) 570 pp. ToC
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On Books
Putnam, George H. – Books & their Makers during the Middle Ages; a Study of the Conditions of the Production & Distribution of Literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 1 (476-1600), 2 (1500-1709) (Putnam, 1896) 490 pp. ToC 1, 2
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Music
Anthology
ed. Minor, Andrew C. – Music in Medieval & Renaissance life: Anthology of Vocal & Instrumental Music, 1200-1614 (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1964) 130 pp. ToC
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Shoes & Boots
Hall, J. Sparkes – The Book of the Feet: a History of Boots & Shoes: with illustrations of the fashions of the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Greeks & Romans, and the prevailing style throughout Europe, during the Middle Ages down to the present period… (William H. Graham, 1847) 220 pp. ToC
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Science
Garin, Eugenio – Science & Civic Life in the Italian Renaissance (Anchor Books, 1969) 190 pp. ToC
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Astrology
Garin, Eugenio – Astrology in the Renaissance (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986) 150 pp. ToC
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