Alessia Meneghin

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence (eBook, PDF)

Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the study of the professional trade association of the rigattieri (second-hand dealers), this book explores the identity, social mobility, and the gradual acquisition of power of those belonging to the low and lower-middle strata of early Renaissance Florentine society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000712278
• Artikelnr.: 57847094

Autorenporträt

Alessia Meneghin is the author of a book on the Tuscan Misericordie and co-editor of two volumes on Domestic Devotions. Her publications on Renaissance Italy and Tuscany explore issues of wet-nursing, food, credit, objects and practices of devotion, miracles, consumption, identity and social mobility of the Arti Minori.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Guild, Identity of Artifices and Economic Activities 1. Methods
and Problems in the Study of the Guild of Second-Hand Dealers in Florence
2. The Structure of the Guild and Statutes 3. The Rigattieri in the
Socio-Economic System of Fifteenth-Century Florence Part II: Work,
Investments and Social Mobility 4. Credit, Concurrent Activities and the
Appraisal of Goods 5. Land Ownership, Investments and Profits 6. From
Sellers of Old Rags to the Urban Elite. Conclusions