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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Main Author: Welch, Evelyn S. 1959- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 2005
In:Year: 2005
Reviews:[Rezension von: Welch, Evelyn, Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600] (2007) (de Vries, Joyce)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Italy / Material popular culture / Consumption / Shopping / Handelsgut / History 1400-1600
Further subjects:B Shopping History 16th century Italy
B Consumers History 16th century Italy
B Consumers History To 1500 Italy
B Shopping History To 1500 Italy
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Summary: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
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 364 - 393) and index
ISBN:0300107528