Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500

✍ Scribed by Catherine Kovesi Killerby

Publisher: Clarendon Press
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 300
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known. The new luxury, however, was not greeted with universal approval, and chroniclers, poets, churchmen, and statesmen were often critical of, and preoccupied by, its effects. The most voluminous and telling evidence of this preoccupation is the body of laws enacted to restrict and regulate all aspects of luxury consumption — the so-called sumptuary laws. This book offers the first comprehensive study of Italian sumptuary laws through a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout the peninsula. It examines the nature of these laws up to 1500 and relates them to the circumstances, the framework of ideas and the habits of mind that gave rise to them.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON MONEY
A NOTE ON MEASUREMENTS

Introduction
1 Ancient and Early Medieval Precedent
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 Women and Sumptuary Law
7 Problems of Enforcement and the Failure of Sumptuary Law

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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