|
Darrera modificació: 2010-02-21
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Welch, Evelyn S., Shopping in the Renaissance: consumer cultures in Italy, 1400-1600, New Haven - Londres, Yale University Press, 2005, ix + 403 pp.
- Resum
- Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. This fascinating and original 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 on a dailyor a once-in-a-lifetimebasis, during the Renaissance period. Evelyn 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.
Contents:
* 1. Introduction 1
Pt. 1. Seeing shopping 17
* 2. Markets and metaphors 19
* 3. Shopping and surveillance 63
Pt. 2. The geography of expenditure 95
* 4. Time 96
* 5. Place 123
Pt. 3. Acquisition and excitement 165
* 6. Fairs 166
* 7. Bidding and gambling 185
Pt. 4. Renaissance consumers 211
* 8. Men in the marketplace 212
* 9. Shopping with Isabella d'Este 245
* Conclusion 275
* 10. Priceless 277
- Matèries
- Història de la tècnica
Societat
- Notes
- Reimpr. en rústica: 2009.
|