Series | Studi di storia
Edited book | Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500
Chapter | 16 Patterns of Consumption in Renaissance Venice
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.
Submitted: July 1, 2019 | Accepted: Sept. 5, 2019 | Published Feb. 24, 2020 | Language: en
Keywords History of consumption • Cost of living • Family expense • Venetian Republic • Consumer prices • Material culture
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Foreword
Introduction
Illustrations
Section 1. The Transmission of Texts in Print and the Distribution and Reception of Books
Section 2. Working with Libraries in Europe and the United States
Section 3. The Cost of Living and the Cost of Books in 15th-Century Europe
Section 4. Illustration and Digital Tools
Indexes
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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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Material culture |
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