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- catalog abstract ""Raffaella Sarti takes up in Europe at Home, a fascinating guide to European homes, families, and material possessions of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. The book traverses all of Europe and presents a detailed picture of daily reality for people at every economic level, from the ragged masses of the homeless to the privileged nobles who occupied grand villas and palaces. Vivid personal stories bring each topic to life and offer insights into human relations not only between rich and poor, powerful and weak, masters and servants, but also between parents and children, husbands and wives, and men and women."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Vita di casa. English".
- catalog contributor b12586044.
- catalog coverage "Europe Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Raffaella Sarti takes up in Europe at Home, a fascinating guide to European homes, families, and material possessions of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. The book traverses all of Europe and presents a detailed picture of daily reality for people at every economic level, from the ragged masses of the homeless to the privileged nobles who occupied grand villas and palaces. Vivid personal stories bring each topic to life and offer insights into human relations not only between rich and poor, powerful and weak, masters and servants, but also between parents and children, husbands and wives, and men and women."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Home and family : things fall apart. Did the lack of a home mean the lack of a family? ; Mobile homes, multiple homes, and refuges ; Insecure housing and insecure families ; Cohabitation and marriage ; Welfare and imprisonment ; Religious life and family life ; Family and familia ; Houses with families ; Transient distinctions -- Home and family : bringing things together or setting up home. Getting married ; Trousseaus, bottom drawers and 'complete beds' ; The rich and the poor ; Who paid? ; The meaning of things ; Rites of passage ; So much hard work! -- Configurations of the house and the family. The functions of the house ; Flexible families ; Getting along and arguing ; Cohabitation and kinship ; Shifting patterns -- The home. Peasants and towns people ; Villages and scattered houses ; Country dwellings ; Keeping warm ; Innovations ; Excuse me, can I come in? ; 'The luxury of the peasantry' ; Adoption or adaptation? ; The growth of cities ; The urban environment ; City lights ; Fires ; Beds ; Tables, chairs and socializing together ; Pots, dishes and porcelain ; Everything has its place and everything in its place ; Bedrooms and corridors ; Privacy ; Living and eating -- Food. Good table manners ; Solidarity and hierarchy at the table ; Men and women and the preparation of food ; Who you are depends on when you eat and what you eat ; Eating bread and eating meat ; Dietary innovations ; Beer and wine ; The variety and monotony of food ; Spinning by the fire as the bread cooks -- Clothing. Spinning, weaving, sewing and buying ; Underwear and hygiene ; Protection and making oneself attractive ; The monopoly of colours ; Clothes that categorized people ; Livery -- Inside and outside the home : A few final considerations. Production and consumption ; New boundaries and new hierarchies.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-317) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 324 p., [48] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0300085427 (hardback : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng ita".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "306/.094 21".
- catalog subject "GT129 .S2713 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Home and family : things fall apart. Did the lack of a home mean the lack of a family? ; Mobile homes, multiple homes, and refuges ; Insecure housing and insecure families ; Cohabitation and marriage ; Welfare and imprisonment ; Religious life and family life ; Family and familia ; Houses with families ; Transient distinctions -- Home and family : bringing things together or setting up home. Getting married ; Trousseaus, bottom drawers and 'complete beds' ; The rich and the poor ; Who paid? ; The meaning of things ; Rites of passage ; So much hard work! -- Configurations of the house and the family. The functions of the house ; Flexible families ; Getting along and arguing ; Cohabitation and kinship ; Shifting patterns -- The home. Peasants and towns people ; Villages and scattered houses ; Country dwellings ; Keeping warm ; Innovations ; Excuse me, can I come in? ; 'The luxury of the peasantry' ; Adoption or adaptation? ; The growth of cities ; The urban environment ; City lights ; Fires ; Beds ; Tables, chairs and socializing together ; Pots, dishes and porcelain ; Everything has its place and everything in its place ; Bedrooms and corridors ; Privacy ; Living and eating -- Food. Good table manners ; Solidarity and hierarchy at the table ; Men and women and the preparation of food ; Who you are depends on when you eat and what you eat ; Eating bread and eating meat ; Dietary innovations ; Beer and wine ; The variety and monotony of food ; Spinning by the fire as the bread cooks -- Clothing. Spinning, weaving, sewing and buying ; Underwear and hygiene ; Protection and making oneself attractive ; The monopoly of colours ; Clothes that categorized people ; Livery -- Inside and outside the home : A few final considerations. Production and consumption ; New boundaries and new hierarchies.".
- catalog title "Europe at home : family and material culture, 1500-1800 / Raffaella Sarti ; translated by Allan Cameron.".
- catalog title "Vita di casa. English".
- catalog type "text".