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Article: Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Susan Mosher Stuard. Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy.
The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 322 pp. + 8 color pls. index. illus. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3900-8.
While there has been a growing body of literature on Renaissance material culture over the last few years, few have focused on the market for fashion. Certainly, Evelyn Welch's Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600 (2005) and Carole Collier Frick's Dressing Renaissance Florence (2002) address this issue, but within a broader context than the current volume under review here. First of ...