 | Gilding the Market: Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy Subjects: Luxury goods industry -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Luxuries -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Clothing and dress -- Italy -- History -- Medieval 500–1500; Fashion -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; Consumption (Economics) -- Italy -- History -- To 1500; It; Focusing on the luxury trade, Gilding the Market investigates Italian market towns at the moment when fashion arrived in the fourteenth century. Susan Mosher Stuard is Professor of History Emeritus at Haverford College. She is editor of Women in Medieval Society and Women in Medieval History and Historiography and author of A State of Deference: Ragusa/Dubrovnik in the Medieval Centuries, all published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
