Shopping in the Renaissance: consumer cultures in Italy ; 1400 - 1600

Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy r...

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1. Verfasser: Welch, Evelyn S. 1959- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2005
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Zusammenfassung:Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted in daily life--or once in a lifetime. Welch draws on wide-ranging sources to expose the fears, anxieties, and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace and to show the impact of these attitudes on developing urban spaces. She considers transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions, and lotteries, as well as consumers themselves. Finally, she explores antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
Beschreibung:IX, 403 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0300107528

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