Buyers & sellers: retail circuits and practices in medieval and early modern Europe / Bruno Blondé, Peter Stabel, Jon Stobart & Ilja Van Damme (eds.)
Alternate Title(s):
Buyers and sellers: retail circuits and practices in medieval and early modern Europe
Published / Created:
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, c2006.
Physical Description:
351 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
1. Introduction.--2. The fairs of early modern Italy / E. Welch.--3. Renewal of the shop system: Italy in the early modern period / D. Calabi.--4. 'Piu honorati et suntuosi ala Republica': botteghe and luxary retail along Siena's Strada Romana / F. Nevola. -- 5. From the market to the shop: retail and urban space in late medieval Bruges / P. Stabel. -- 6. Markets, shops, inns, taverns and private houses in medieval English trade / R. Britnell. -- 7. Sites of desire: shops, selds and wardrobes in London and other English cities, 1100-1550 / D. Keene. -- 8. Shops, markets and retailers in London's Cheapside, c. 1500-1700 / V. Harding. -- 9. Dealing with diversity: pedlars in the Southern Netherlands in the eighteenth century / H. Deceulaer. -- 10. Changing consumer preferences and evolutions in relailing. Buying and selling consumer durables in Antwerp (c. 1648-c. 1748) / I. Van Damme. -- 11. Clothes, cabinets and carriages: second-hand dealing in eighteenth-century England / J. Stobart.-- 12. Plebeian commercial circuits and everyday material exchange in England, c. 1600-1900 / B. Lemire. -- 13. Martino Grimaldi and the merchant-charlatans of early modern Italy / D. Gentilcore. -- 14. Liquidation or certification? Small claims disputes and retail credit in seventeenth-century Venice / J. Shaw. -- 15. Trade and gender emancipation: retailing women in sixteenth-century Antwerp / L. Van Aert. -- 16. Eighteenth-century Maastricht shopkeepers and their hinterland customers / E. Steegen. -- 17. The social relations of shopping in early-modern England / C. Walsh.
Subject Terms:
Retail trade -- Europe -- History. | Consumption (Economics) -- Europe -- History. | Consumer behavior -- Europe -- History. | City and town life -- Europe -- History.
Contributors:
Blondé, B. (Bruno), 1964– | Stabel, Peter. | Stobart, Jon, 1966– | Van Damme, Ilja.