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80 pp.
| Benchmark
| October, 2002
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LibraryISBN 0-7614-1490-8$$28.50
(3)
4-6
Rulers and Their Times series.
Divided into three parts, each book in this series provides a short biography of its title subject; examines everyday life, including housing, food, clothing, education, and recreation; and then use primary documents to illustrate Renaissance or Victorian thought. Color reproductions of art and manuscripts accompany the text, which is spaciously designed with plenty of white space. Bib., glos., ind. [Review covers these Rulers and Their Times titles: Lorenzo De' Medici and Renaissance Italy and Queen Victoria and Nineteenth-Century England.]