Main entry:

Welch, Evelyn S., 1959-

Title & Author:

Shopping in the Renaissance : consumer cultures in Italy 1400-1600 / [Evelyn Welch].

Publication:

New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2005.

Description:

ix, 403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-393) and index.
Seeing shopping. Markets and metaphors ; Shopping and surveillance -- The geography of expenditure. Time ; Place -- Acquisition and excitement. Fairs ; Bidding and gambling -- Renaissance consumers. Men in the marketplace ; Shopping with Isabella d'Este -- Priceless.

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.

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ISBN:

0300107528 (cloth)
9780300107524 (cloth)
9780300159851 (pbk.)
0300159854 (pbk.)

Subject:

Consumers Italy History To 1500.
Consumers Italy History 16th century.
Shopping Italy History To 1500.
Shopping Italy History 16th century.
Magasinage Italie Histoire 16e siècle.
Consumers.
Shopping.
Einkaufen
Handel
Renaissance
Sachkultur
Verbrauch
Winkelen.
Consumenten.
Italy.
Italien

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242402
Call No.: BIB 172205
Status: Available