The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence : Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers (Routledge Research in Medieval Studies)

Meneghin, Alessia

Routledge（2019/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367407261
• DDC分類 381.19094551109024

Full Description

The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) has never been ​​the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic activity of rigattieri in fifteenth-century Florence. It offers invaluable information on issues such as the relationship between socio-political affiliations and economic interest as well as the structures of consumption and the spending power of different social groups. Furthermore, through the lens of the Arte dei Rigattieri, this work examines the connection between the development of the political bureaucracy, the establishment of Medicean power, and contemporaneous processes of identity construction and social mobility.

Contents

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