The Material Renaissance

Herausgeber: O'Malley, Michelle; Welch, Evelyn

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Produktbeschreibung

Focussing on the consumer demand for goods in Renaissance Italy, The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081255
• ISBN-10: 0719081254
• Artikelnr.: 29930479

Autorenporträt

Michelle O'Malley is Director of Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex. Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Notes on currencies and measurements Abbreviations Preface and acknowledgements Introduction 1. Consuming problems: Worldly goods in Renaissance Venice
Patricia Allerston 2. Republican anxiety and courtly confidence: The politics of magnificence and fifteenth
century Italian architecture
Rupert Shepherd 3. Making money: Pricing and payments in Renaissance Italy
Evelyn Welch 4. The social world of price formation: Prices and consumption in sixteenth
century Ferrara
Guido Guerzoni 5. Perugino and the contingency of value
Michelle O'Malley 6. States and crafts: Relocating technical skills in Renaissance Italy
Luca Mola 7. Diversity and design in the Florentine tailoring trade, 1550
1620
Elizabeth Currie 8. Art and the table in sixteenth
century Mantua: Feeding the demand for innovative design
Valerie Taylor 9. The illuminated manuscript as a commodity: Production, consumption and the cartolaio's role in fifteenth
century Italy
Anna Melograni 10. Credit and credibility: used goods and social relations in sixteenth
century Florence
Ann Matchette 11. The innkeeper's goods: The use and acquisition of household property in sixteenth
century Siena
Paola Hohti 12. Coins, cloaks and candlesticks: The economics of extravagance
Mary Hollingsworth Index