Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500

ISBN-13: 9780199247936 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 208 str.

Catherine Kovesi Killerby

Opis

Although 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 three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout Italy, and sets them in their social context.

Recenzje

... important and elegantly-written ... The book revises a number of scholarly orthodoxies ... One of the virtues of the book is that it should help establish sumptuary laws and their social impact as deserving of serious study ... this book will become an important port of call for all scholars interested in medieval dress and cultural practices, and the motivations guiding their control.