As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
The Devil's Arithmetic, based on the book by Jane Yolen, is about a girl who is transported from modern-day to 1940 Nazi-occupied Poland. The meaning of the title, comes from â¦ the numbers on the clothing that the prisoners in the concentration camp.