Buyers and Sellers

Les emotions au coeur de la ville (XIVe-XVIe siecle)

edited by Bruno Blonde, Peter Stabel, Jon Stobart and Ilja Van Damme

Book cover: Buyers and Sellers

Extent: 350 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800)

Series volume number: 9

Language: English

(Paperback) (Out of print)

(September 2006)

ISBN: 9782503515809

Price: $83.00

Out of stock

Consumption is now a critical issue in late medieval and early modern historical and cultural studies. While we know increasingly about regulatory systems, we know much less about the daily practice of buying and selling. This book brings together contributions from urban historians, social historians and art historians to explore the issues of exchange, shopping behavior, social interactions, gender and physical space. Contributions deal with Italy, the Low Countries and England. In the articles in this volume lines of continuity between the medieval and early modern period have been stressed. In addition, some critical questions have been raised. Were markets necessarily less modern compared to fixed shops? How did changing consumers and consumer patterns interact with the retailer? The essays published here also emphasize the need to study different commercial circuits in their context. These circuits often overlapped and could not artificially be isolated from one another. Authors B.Blonde, R.Britnell, D.Calabi, H. Deceulaer, D. Gentilcore, V. Harding, B. Lemire, F.Nevola, J.Shaw, E.Steegen, P.Stabel, J. Stobart, L. Van Aert, I. Van Damme, C.Walsh, E.Welch. Bruno Blonde is Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp. His current research interests include: urban history, social inequality and living standards, consumption and retailing history and historical social network analysis.

  • Edited by Bruno Blonde
  • Edited by Peter Stabel
  • Edited by Jon Stobart
  • Edited by Ilja Van Damme