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. In this book Catherine Kovesi Killerby offers the first comprehensive study of Italian sumputuary laws through a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout the peninsula. She examines the nature of these laws up to 1500 and relates them to the cricumstances, the framework of ideas and the habits of mind which gave rise to them.
| ISBN: | 9780199247936 |
| Publication date: | 18th April 2002 |
| Author: | Catherine , Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne Kovesi Killerby |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Genres: |
European history: medieval period, middle ages Jurisprudence and general issues Personal property law Social and cultural history |
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. In this book Catherine Kovesi Killerby offers the first comprehensive study of Italian sumputuary laws through a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than three hundred laws enacted in over forty cities throughout the peninsula. She examines the nature of these laws up to 1500 and relates them to the cricumstances, the framework of ideas and the habits of mind which gave rise to them.
Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500 features in the following genres: European history: medieval period, middle ages, Jurisprudence and general issues, Personal property law, Social and cultural history
Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500 is available in Hardback
Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500 was written by Catherine , Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne Kovesi Killerby and published by Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Sumptuary Law in Italy 1200-1500 has 202 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Historical Monographs series