She considers transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions, and lotteries, as well as consumers themselves. Welch draws on wide-ranging sources to expose the fears, anxieties, and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace and to show the impact of these attitudes on developing urban spaces. The book investigates how men and women of different social classes went to the streets, squares, and shops to buy goods they needed and wanted in daily life-or once in a lifetime. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs, and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. 1959- Contents Markets and metaphors - Shopping and surveillance - Time - Place - Fairs - Bidding gambling - Men in the marketplace - Shopping with Isabella d'Este - Priceless Summary Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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