Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

by Susan Mosher Stuard

In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239008
• ISBN13: 9780812239003
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"