Gilding the Market

Stuard, Susan Mosher

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“…depressed commerce and production. 94 New 'Renaissance' obsessions to covet property and objects for family memory into the grave illustrated in hundreds of post-plague testaments show a similar contradictory duality. 95 While the new Renaissance attachment to things may have benefited artistic and luxury production, it may have had other consequences for commerce more broadly.…”

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Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments¹

Cohn

2011

The Economic History Review

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Over the past decade ‘material culture’ has become a sub‐discipline of Italian Renaissance studies. This literature, however, has focused on the rich and their objects preserved in museums or reflected in paintings. In addition, the period 1300 to 1600 has been treated without attention to changes in the relationship between people and possessions. The article turns to last wills and testaments, which survive in great numbers and sink deep roots through late medieval and Renaissance cities and their hinterlands. They reveal aspirations and anxieties about things from post‐mortem repairs to farm houses to pillows of monk's wool. These aspirations changed fundamentally after the Black Death. Earlier, during the ‘commercial revolution’, ordinary merchants, artisans, and peasants on their deathbeds practised what the mendicants preached: stripping themselves of their possessions, they converted their estates to coin to be scattered among pious and non‐pious beneficiaries. After the Black Death, testators began to reverse tack, devising ever more complex legal strategies to govern the future flow of their goods. This work of the dead had larger economic consequences. By encouraging the liquidation of estates, the earlier mendicant ideology quickened the velocity of exchange, while the early Renaissance attachment to things did the opposite.

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Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments¹

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2011

The Economic History Review

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“…According to Susan Stuard, fashion 'flourished where inspiration took hold: glimpsing some feature of dress that could be echoed, imitated, mocked, parodied, or surpassed by others fed the trend'. 29 Ultimately, Lisabetta and her mother Mattea did not succeed in their pursuit of this fashionable and flashy addition to the trousseau. A dowry inventory in 1539 listed no chain.…”

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8. Young Women Negotiating Fashion in Early Modern Florence

Moran¹

2018

The Youth of Early Modern Women

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This essay examines how young women negotiated their position in family life through participation in the larger world of Florentine clothing and fashion. Although young women were far from independent agents, they could take active roles in assembling a dowry and trousseau and later, as wives and new mothers, in arranging clothing for themselves and other family members. Two case studies of correspondence from the mid to late sixteenth century of Florentine women in the Spinelli and Ricasoli families suggest that daughters and young wives engaged with fashion and the consumption of apparel, before and after marriage, for their households.

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Society, Elite Families, and Politics in Late Medieval Italian Cities

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2009

A Companion to the Medieval World

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Gilding the Market

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Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments¹

Renaissance attachment to things: material culture in last wills and testaments¹

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Society, Elite Families, and Politics in Late Medieval Italian Cities

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