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050 00 $aHC310.C6$bW45 2005
082 00 $a306.3/0945/09023$222
100 1 $aWelch, Evelyn S.,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95038195
245 10 $aShopping in the Renaissance :$bconsumer cultures in Italy 1400-1600 /$cEvelyn Welch.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] ;$aLondon :$bYale University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $aix, 403 pages :$bcolor illustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 364-393) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction --$gPt. 1.$tSeeing shopping --$g2.$tMarkets and metaphors --$g3.$tShopping and surveillance --$gPt. 2.$tThe geography of expenditure --$g4.$tTime --$g5.$tPlace --$gPt. 3.$tAcquisition and excitement --$g6.$tFairs --$g7.$tBidding and gambling --$gPt. 4.$tRenaissance consumers --$g8.$tMen in the marketplace --$g9.$tShopping with Isabella d'Este --$tConclusion --$g10.$tPriceless.
520 1 $a"This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily, or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis, during the Renaissance period." "Evelyn Welch looks first at the language that framed the explanations that contemporaries provided and she begins by exploring the long-standing metaphors and stereotypes used to describe the experience of the marketplace. Drawing on an impressively detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace, and gives concrete and vivid voice to the period." "In the second part of the book, Welch looks at the impact these attitudes had on the developing urban spaces of Renaissance cities, before turning to more transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions and lotteries. In the third section, she examines the consumers themselves, asking how the mental, verbal and visual images of the market shaped the business of buying and selling. Finally, she explores two seemingly very different types of commodities: antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aConsumers$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aConsumers$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century.
650 0 $aShopping$zItaly$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aShopping$zItaly$xHistory$y16th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024095.html
852 00 $bmil$hHC310.C6$iW45 2005