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Informationen zum Autor Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London Michelle O’Malley is Director of Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Sussex Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsNotes on currencies and measurementsAbbreviationsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction1. Consuming problems: Worldly goods in Renaissance Venice - Patricia Allerston2. Republican anxiety and courtly confidence: The politics of magnificence and fifteenth-century Italian architecture - Rupert Shepherd3. 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 Guerzoni5. Perugino and the contingency of value - Michelle O'Malley6. States and crafts: Relocating technical skills in Renaissance Italy - Luca Mola7. 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 Taylor9. The illuminated manuscript as a commodity: Production, consumption and the cartolaio's role in fifteenth-century Italy - Anna Melograni10. Credit and credibility: used goods and social relations in sixteenth-century Florence - Ann Matchette11. The innkeeper's goods: The use and acquisition of household property in sixteenth-century Siena - Paola Hohti12. Coins, cloaks and candlesticks: The economics of extravagance - Mary HollingsworthIndex...
