The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

ISBN-13: 9780367407261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Alessia Meneghin

Opis

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.

Spis treści

Part I: The Guild, Identity of Artifices and Economic Activities  1. Methods and Problems in the Study of the Guild of Second-Hand Dealers in Florence  2. The Structure of the Guild and Statutes  3. The Rigattieri in the Socio-Economic System of Fifteenth-Century Florence  Part II: Work, Investments and Social Mobility  4. Credit, Concurrent Activities and the Appraisal of Goods  5. Land Ownership, Investments and Profits   6. From Sellers of Old Rags to the Urban Elite.  Conclusions

O autorze

Alessia Meneghin is the author of a book on the Tuscan Misericordie and co-editor of two volumes on Domestic Devotions. Her publications on Renaissance Italy and Tuscany explore issues of wet-nursing, food, credit, objects and practices of devotion, miracles, consumption, identity and social mobility of the Arti Minori.