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Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600
Welch, Evelyn: Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. London and New Haven: 2005. 401pp with 9 colour plates, 57 colour and 147 monochrome illustrations. Cloth, 25.2x18cms. Explores Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace and the variety of goods to be purchased there, from foodstuffs to the acquisitions of antiquities and holy relics. The author looks at the whole spectrum of people shopping, men and women from all social classes. Examines the impact these findings had on urban spaces and Renaissance cities, on the sales at fairs, auctions and lotteries. With conclusion, notes, bibliography and index.
Explores Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace and the variety of goods to be purchased there, from foodstuffs to the acquisitions of antiquities and holy relics. The author looks at the whole spectrum of people shopping, men and women from all social classes. Examines the impact these findings had on urban spaces and Renaissance cities, on the sales at fairs, auctions and lotteries. With conclusion, notes, bibliography and index. Text in English
