Sumptuary law in Italy, 1200-1500
Catherine Kovesi Killerby (Author)
The luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known. This is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than 300 laws enacted in over 40 cities throughout Italy, and sets them in their social context.
History
VIII, 191 Seiten.
9780199247936, 0199247935
179736332
Introduction ; 1. Ancient and Early Medieval Precedents ; 2. The Origins and Characteristics of Italian Sumptuary Law ; 3. Money and People ; 4. Ambition and Social Order ; 5. The Church and Sumptuary Law ; 6. Mulieris delinquentis: Women and Sumptuary law ; 7. Problems of Enforcement and the Failure of Sumptuary Law ; Bibliography ; Index