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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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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.

Pubblicato
24 Febbraio 2020
Accettato
05 Settembre 2019
Presentato
01 Luglio 2019
Lingua
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-333-5
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-332-8

Keywords: Family expenseVenetian RepublicCost of livingHistory of consumptionConsumer pricesMaterial culture

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