When could they shop and where could they shop? Did they send servants, or were deliveries made to their door? How did they know when they were getting good value or when they were being cheated? Could they return items that were not satisfactory? Drawing on a richly detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period.
This fascinating, timely and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics.
Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is today.
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