Europe at home
Subtitle: family and material culture, 1500-1800
By: Rafaella Sarti ; translated by Allan Cameron.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Material culture -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.; Material culture -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.; Material culture -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.; Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century.; Europe -- Social conditions -- 17th century.; Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century.; Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.; Europe -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.; Europe -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.; Europe -- Civilization.
Work titles: Vita di casa.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-317) and index.

Translated from the Italian.