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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Kovesi Killerby (, Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.40cm Weight: 0.356kg ISBN: 9780199247936ISBN 10: 0199247935 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 18 April 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsa thorough and convincing book -- Renaissance Quarterly<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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