6 sentences with “household”

The French crown introduced new taxes, such as the Gabelle (a salt tax) and the Taille (a household tax), which further burdened the commoners.

Spartan girls were allowed to stay with their parents, but were also trained in martial skills as boys, along with the knowledge they would need to run a household.

From the 14th century onwards, the kingdoms of Europe began to levy taxes both on products, such as salt, which were necessary for everyone, and on people just because they happened to be there (a head tax or a household tax).

Although Roman culture was explicitly patriarchal, with families organised under the authority of the eldest male in the household (the paternal families), there is a wealth of textual evidence to suggest that women enjoyed considerable independence nonetheless.

A domestic servant in a middle-class household could expect to rise before dawn to light the fireplace and the house fire, cook and clean throughout the day, run errands if necessary, and finally collapse after up to seventeen hours of almost uninterrupted work.

Perhaps the most iconic aspect of the Renaissance as a whole is its tremendous artistic achievements - figures such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti are household names in a way that Petrarch is not, although Petrarch must be credited with creating the very concept of the Renaissance.