16 Patterns of Consumption in Renaissance Venice

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dc.contributor.author	Cecchini Isabella
dc.title	16 Patterns of Consumption in Renaissance Venice
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dc.description.abstract	Reconstructing prices and price indexes for pre-industrial societies is always a challenge for researchers. Despite the fact that several account books have been preserved and may offer purchase and sale prices of a wide range of goods, the definition of a consumer basket – a set of different quantities of goods forming the basic consumption unit for an average individual or family – faces several difficulties. Average consumption is difficult to establish even in pre-industrial times, since buying activities vary of course not only according to wealth and income, but also to social class; and it is usually difficult to record and assess self-consumption. It seems more important to offer some parameters from a single case study, the ledger of a Venetian patrician recording his purchases on a daily basis, in a couple of months in 1455.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi di storia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-02-24
dc.dateAccepted	2019-09-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-07-01
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dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-332-8/016
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dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-333-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-332-8
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Consumer prices
dc.subject	Consumer prices
dc.subject	Cost of living
dc.subject	Cost of living
dc.subject	Family expense
dc.subject	Family expense
dc.subject	History of consumption
dc.subject	History of consumption
dc.subject	Material culture
dc.subject	Material culture
dc.subject	Venetian Republic
dc.subject	Venetian Republic

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16 Patterns of Consumption in Renaissance Venice

Isabella Cecchini Istituto di storia dell’Europa mediterranea ISEM – CNR, Roma

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Reconstructing prices and price indexes for pre-industrial societies is always a challenge for researchers. Despite the fact that several account books have been preserved and may offer purchase and sale prices of a wide range of goods, the definition of a consumer basket – a set of different quantities of goods forming the basic consumption unit for an average individual or family – faces several difficulties. Average consumption is difficult to establish even in pre-industrial times, since buying activities vary of course not only according to wealth and income, but also to social class; and it is usually difficult to record and assess self-consumption. It seems more important to offer some parameters from a single case study, the ledger of a Venetian patrician recording his purchases on a daily basis, in a couple of months in 1455.

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Feb. 24, 2020

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Sept. 5, 2019

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July 1, 2019

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978-88-6969-333-5

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978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Material culture • Cost of living • Family expense • Consumer prices • History of consumption • Venetian Republic

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