Susan Mosher Stuard

Gilding the Market

Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the luxury trade, "Gilding the Market" investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century.

Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780812239003
• ISBN-10: 0812239008
• Artikelnr.: 22272576

Autorenporträt

Susan Mosher Stuard is Professor of History Emeritus at Haverford College. She is editor of Women in Medieval Society and Women in Medieval History and Historiography and author of A State of Deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries, all published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Desirable Wares
Chapter 3. Gravitas and Consumption
Chapter 4. Curbing Women's Excesses
Chapter 5. Costs of Luxuries
Chapter 6. Shops and Trades
Chapter 7. Marketmakers
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments