Gilding the Market Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy - Stuard, Susan Mosher (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
Biographical note: Susan Mosher Stuard is Professor of History Emeritus at Haverford College. She is editor of Women in Medieval Society and Women in Medieval History and Historiography and author of A State of Deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries, all published by the University of Pennsylvania Press
Main description: Focusing on the luxury trade, Gilding the Market investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century