Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 73 Search Results for
luxury
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
1
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 597–617.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the need for the rich to reserve at least part of their resources for social measures in the form of charity. By regulating luxury through various forms of fines and penalties, sumptuary laws helped to benefit the less privileged and the city in general. Critiques of consumption, of disproportionate...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 459–481.
Published: 01 September 2009
....8
Luxury objects and fashionable garments were valuable assets that set elite
families apart from the working poor.9 Over two centuries of great economic
and demographic expansion (ca. 1450 – ca. 1650), new patterns of produc-
tion, merchandizing, and consumption in the creation...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 427–431.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
England; as Kalas points out, crystal glass mirrors were not made in England
until 1624. They were therefore imported luxuries, hailing from an “incon-
tinent” Venice and therefore suspect because of their foreign origin.
Equally suspect because of their foreign origin, imported luxury
cloths...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 543–570.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the Continent had reached an all time high. After wine, the primary
imports of the sixteenth century were silks and velvets from Italy.7 By the
late years of that century, luxury cloth imports from Spain, as well as from
France and Italy, had increased six-fold and were the most prominent class
of imports.8...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 571–595.
Published: 01 September 2009
...
the seas, it is not worth a strawe” (70). (3) The purchase of luxury fabrics
demonstrates profligacy on the part of the wearer: “we impoverish our selves
in buying their trifling Merchandizes” (70).23 (4) By wearing sumptuous
textiles, “private subjects” are dressing outside of their class...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 183–200.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., its perceived exoticism contributed to
the golden allure of the Americas. In early accounts chocolate appears as
a luxury. Martyr, for instance, called chocolate a drink “fitte for a king,”
perhaps recalling Hernán Cortés’s encounter with the drink in an ambas-
sadorial exchange of princely...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 623–653.
Published: 01 September 2013
... commodities fell under the category of “arts and crafts,” or mechanical
arts, in the late seventeenth century. Around the time that Evelyn made his
list, imported crafts soon to become essential to France’s international image
arrived on the scene. They included foreign technologies for luxuries...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 545–570.
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Yet despite the allegorical interpretation of vestments through the
ages, theologians could never entirely separate for the skeptic the beauty or
style of religious garments from their cultural status as commercial or luxury
items. Tertullian, for example, the early church father most famously...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 559–591.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of Eurasian trade in luxuries, attentive to changes across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, is Maxine Berg, ed., Goods from the East, 1600–1800: Trading Eurasia (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 12 On the ideology of the monarchy as “ultimate actor,” see Helgerson, Forms...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 511–544.
Published: 01 September 2009
...
that they were more particular about luxurious clothing than rare
virtue. . . . One can see that many people [today] are honored for
the quantity and sumptuousness of their dress and yet are empty
of virtue and sound conscience. (Recueil, 30)
He goes on to cite the New Testament...
Journal Article
“The Sign of the Last”: Gender, Material Culture, and Artisanal Nostalgia in The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (3): 573–597.
Published: 01 September 2013
... techniques
in luxury cloth and clothing manufacture into the English economy.30 Phil-
lip Stubbes, in his Anatomie of Abuses (1583), decries the predilection for for-
eign fashions over homespun wares, including the preference for shoes that
are “raced, carved, cut and stitched all over with silk...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (2): 395–418.
Published: 01 May 2015
...-pampered Luxury
Now heaps upon some few with vast excess,
Nature’s full blessings would be well-dispensed
In unsuperfluous even proportion. (767 – 72)1
Such praise of virtue forms a persistent motif in Milton’s later prose, and
critics have argued that the Lady’s spirited...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 407–432.
Published: 01 May 2009
...
with More a recognition that poverty and crime are related to each other,
her poem does not see abjuring luxury and leisure as the cost of combat-
ing them. Influential recent left-leaning critics of More’s text — even as they
seek to stave off dismissive right-oriented readings — have been haunted...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 619–641.
Published: 01 September 2009
... captions
written in a contemporary hand.2 The illustrations reveal a keen attention to
major changes in fashionable clothing, particular uses of fabrics and trims,
and luxurious accessories such as feathered fans, hats with plumes, precious
fabrics, and more. In addition, these albums exemplify...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2007) 37 (3): 493–510.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of the Mudéjar on both sides of the Atlantic to argue
that in a colonial context Mudéjar goods actually signify Iberianness, and
that Mudéjar luxury items are used in distinct ways by different segments of
Iberian society.29 Juxtaposing carpentry and ceramics, costume and custom,
Feliciano radically...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 519–542.
Published: 01 September 2002
... a figure, a trifling thought, a bit of fancy.
The glass mirror has no proper place in the temporal order of mat-
ter: it is either a castle in the air or a crass material luxury. The glass mirror
is thus quite literally a conceit, since conceit denoted not only an inventive
rhetorical trope...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 431–453.
Published: 01 May 2020
... and bravery of poor yet valiant seamen helps landed elites main- tain their accustomed luxury: We bring home costly merchandize, and Jewels of great price, To serve our English gallantry, with many a rare device: To please the English gallantry our pains we freely show, For we toyl and we moile, when...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (2): 229–252.
Published: 01 May 2008
... and repentance and the second half’s staging of the miraculous
conversion of the King of Marcyll. In several important “perfuming” scenes
that manipulate Mary Magdalene’s saintly emblem, the play stages both the
sinful nature of a luxurious touch and the venerating touch of salvation.
The play thus...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 397–429.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of Alexander, who as Cruse observes is motivated by a desire for knowledge attained by seeing. The manuscript's aristocratic audience could admire Alexander's curiosity as they contemplated the familiar and the strange within this luxury manuscript, particularly its multitude of animals, both monstrous...
FIGURES
| View All (13)
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (3): 483–509.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the guiding role of the consumer
is often apparent, it was not as dominating as has been supposed. Indeed,
during the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, consumer control
was increasingly circumscribed by the emergence of luxury fashion retailers
Journal of Medieval...
1
