Spanish Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century*

Wunder, Amanda

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“…While the resulting listing does not capture the universe of sumptuary laws, we believe it is representative; it is certainly the largest list of sumptuary laws available. Important sources include Hooper (1915) and Baldwin (1926) for England; Moyer (1996) for France; Guarinos (1788) and Wunder (2019) for Spain; as well as numerous local and city-level sources for Germany, the Low Countries, and other parts of Europe. The city-level dataset compiles sumptuary laws in medieval and Renaissance Italy, which were originally collected by Killerby (2002).…”

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The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe

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Koyama

2024

J. Econ. Hist.

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Sumptuary laws that regulated clothing based on social status were an important part of the political economy of premodern states. We introduce a model that captures the notion that consumption by ordinary citizens poses a status threat to ruling elites. Our model predicts a non-monotonic effect of income—sumptuary legislation initially increases with income, but then falls as income increases further. The initial rise is more likely for states with less extractive institutions, whose ruling elites face a greater status threat from the rising commercial class. We test these predictions using a new dataset of country and city-level sumptuary laws. It is unfortunately an established fact that both men and womenfolk have, in utterly irresponsible manner, driven extravagance in dress and new styles to such shameful and wanton extremes that the different classes are barely to be known apart. —Nuremberg Ordnance of 1657, Quoted in Hunt (1996)

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The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe

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Koyama

2024

J. Econ. Hist.

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Memoirs of the Fruits of Globalization: The Markets for Chinese Textiles in New Spain by Jean de Monségur

Fernández-de-Pinedo

Thépaut-Cabasset

2021

Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History

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This chapter discusses textile trading and smuggling in the mideighteenth century by using several invaluable and newly discovered resources. Following the economic difficulties arising from the wars during the reign of Louis XIV (1643-1715) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714), a series of reports, consular reports, and memoirs related to the markets of Spanish America were produced. 1 Charles Weiss (1844), in his L´Espagne depuis le règne de Philippe II jusqu´à l´avènement des Bourbons -which was translated into Spanish in 1846-for example, used the Mémoire du comte de Rébenac (1689) from the Manuscrits Français de la Bibliothèque du roi. Weiss first included 1 Some of these manuscripts are in the Foreign Affairs Archives, in Spain and France.

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Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community

Romein

2022

The Seventeenth Century

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Spanish Fashion and Sumptuary Legislation from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Century*

Cited by 4 publications

References 81 publications

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe

The Political Economy of Status Competition: Sumptuary Laws in Preindustrial Europe

Memoirs of the Fruits of Globalization: The Markets for Chinese Textiles in New Spain by Jean de Monségur

Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community

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