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The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-Hand Dealers

Meneghin, Alessia

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Medieval Studies

ManagementMedieval & Renaissance HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 1032088354
ISBN13: 9781032088358
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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