Luxury, Fashion and Other Political Bagatelles in Southeastern Europe, 16th-19th centuries

Acta Poloniae Historica, 2011

Historia obuwia na ziemiach polskich od IX do końca XVIII wieku [A History of Footwear in the Polish Lands from the Ninth to the End of the Eighteenth Century], Toruń, 2011, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 365 pp., ills, glossary of specialist terminology, bibliog., place name and subject index, appendices (patterns of footwear) * Authors of short notes: Jacek Adamczyk (JA), Maria Cieśla (MC), Bartosz Kaliski (BK), Grzegorz Krzywiec (GK), Olga Linkiewicz (OL). Marcin Rafał Pauk and Monika Saczyńska (eds.), Dom, majątek, klient, sługa. Manifestacja pozycji elit w przestrzeni materialnej i społecznej (XIII-XIX wiek) [House, Wealth, Client, Servant: Manifestations of Elite Position in the Material and Social Sphere (Thirteenth to Nineteenth Century)], Warszawa, 2010, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, 259 pp., English sum. The presented publication is a collection of 13 articles which are devoted to various forms of material and social ostentation, viewed over a long period from the end of the twelfth century to the fi rst half of the nineteenth century. This is interdisciplinary research with the authors including both historians of various epochs, and archaeologists as well as cultural historians. The studies cover the area of East-Central Europe. The greatest attention is devoted to the burgher elites (articles by Małgorzata Chorowska, Grzegorz P. Bąbiak, Edmund Kizik, Katerina Jisova, Martin Nodl). The authors concentrate on an analysis of the forms of ostentation amongst the Wrocław, Gdańsk burghers as well as that of Czech cities and towns. Those articles that deal with the aristocracy and gentry (Leszek Kajzer, Marcin R. Pauk, Monika Saczyńska, Jerzy Dygdała, Jarosław Dumasowski) examine the problem of magnate clientele, as well as the ostentation of the riches (e.g. through house decor) displayed by the new gentry. Ewa Wółkiewicz and Dariusz Główka have devoted their research to clergy elites; the former analysing the form of organisation of the Episcopal curia, while the latter an evaluation of the standard of living enjoyed by bishops in the Commonwealth of the eighteenth century. (MC) Waldemar Chorążyczewski and Wojciech Krawczuk (eds.), Polska kancelaria królewska między władzą a społeczeństwem [The Polish Royal Chancellery: Between the Sovereign and Society], pt. 4, Warszawa, 2011, Wydawnictwo DiG, 152 pp. The volume of studies here presented is the aftermath of the fourth conference on the Polish Royal Chancellery, organised by the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Institute of History and Archival Science of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. This conference was set up in a different format compared to earlier events, for it concerned not only the early modern epoch but also that of the late Middle Ages and the nineteenth century. The editors provided an explanation of the new concept in the 'Preface'. The volume contains ten papers, seven of which were given

Journal of Early Modern History, 2020

In late eighteenth-century Ottoman Epirus (today northwestern Greece), novel and pleasurable objects expressed on a material level the rise of new mentalities. We discuss specifically the ceramic trefoil jugs with Greek verses manufactured in Pesaro, Italy, by the firm of Casali and Callegari and its successors. These wine jugs follow a pre-existing formal typology and bear painted decoration; their particularity is that they are also inscribed with verses written in Greek, as they were produced following commissions by merchants from Epirus. This region boasted centers of commerce, wealth, and education of an emerging middle class; the economic power of this rising Greek bourgeoisie was combined with deepening ties with Europe, intellectual growth, and the strengthening of a distinct identity. We argue that these jugs are examples of popular luxury and the commissioning individuals were knowledgeable and proactive consumers exhibiting a growing confidence and indeed a new awareness with political connotations.

Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries, 2018

Once a culture is undertaken, women are a significant and an active agent when we speak about consumption and dissemination of ideas. For this paper, I will analyze the Romanian case in quite a challenging time for the Christian elite and for the manner in which the social status was (re)defined. The shopping lists, family registers, dowries and wills are the main sources for such a research theme. Many of these sources are still unedited and they offer many important information about consumption and the circulation of ideas. Through such archival documents we can recompose the distribution network of these assets, the connexion between clients, their tastes, ideas and how they chose to integrate them, the social status and the women involvement in consumption.

 ABSTRACT Through the prism of objects and material culture, the workshop intends to highlight broad patterns of transregional circulation of people and goods crossing the borders of the Ottoman, Venetian, Russian and Habsburg Empires. The papers will present and discuss a wide variety of unpublished textual and visual sources related to luxury consumption, fashion and dress codes; diplomatic and political exchanges; dowry contracts and travel journals. New light is shed on networks of agents, merchants and diplomats negotiating the self-fashioning of local elites whose identities are shaped by linguistic, cultural and religious practices. The workshop aims at rethinking broader interpretive categories and challenges issues of Ottomanization and Westernization, as well as linear processes of modernization and change.

This study examines the economic, geographical, and social mobility in the early modern Adriatic using the example of the urban elites of Zadar (Zara) between the two naval battles of Preveza (1538) and Lepanto (1571). Based upon the protocols of fifteen public notaries, preserved in the Croatian State Archive in Zadar, the present thesis combines both unpublished primary and published secondary sources ? the Venetian relazioni as well as the city?s statutory laws, codified in 1563/64 ? to provide for a vivid images of past times.Methodically, the present study applies a three?pronged approach: An introductory chapter is followed by the first major part. By means of analysis of more than 900 individual procura contracts, the geographical range of Zadar?s urban elites are surveyed. So far this source type has attracted little scholarly attention despite its advantages of both qualitative and quantitative analysis potential to reconstruct pre?modern communication.The subsequent part surveys the interactions among Zadar?s various urban elites along ecclesiastical, economic, and political lines; the intricate relationship of clergy and nobility is of particular interest in this context. While the first segment of this part focuses on the analysis of the interrelationships of the elite groups, the second segment is a case study examining the real estate market. Thorough analysis of more than 1.700 individual contracts sheds new light on the developments of the economic foundations of an early modern frontier society.Zadar?s various urban elites ? nobility, elite commoners, Croats, and Jews ? and their marriage behaviour, material culture and, more general, interactions are the main topics of the final part. Based upon marriage contracts, dowry quitclaims, and testaments, colourful images of life in Venice?s maritime state in the 16th century emerges.

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‘A Mechanism of Securing Private Property in 14th and 15th Century Thessalonica’, in Social Assistance and Solidarity in Europe from 13th to the 18th Centuries, Atti della “Quarantattresima Settimana di Studi” (22-26 April 2012), (Firenze 2013), 493-508.

Atti della "Quarantaquattresima Settimana di Studi" 22-26 aprile 2012 a cura di Francesco Ammannati Firenze University Press 2013 ESTRATTO Assistenza e solidarietà in Europa Secc. XIII-XVIII = Social assistance and solidarity in Europe from the 13th to the 18th Centuries : atti della "Quarantaquattresima Settimana di Studi", 22-26 aprile 2012 / a cura di Francesco Ammannati. -Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2013. (Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altri Convegni ; 44) http://digital.casalini.it/9788866553670 ISBN 978-88-6655-367-0 (online) ISBN 978-88-6655-366-3 (print) La Settimana di Studi è stata realizzata con il contributo di: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali La pubblicazione del presente volume è stata realizzata con il contributo di: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Certificazione scientifica delle Opere Tutti i volumi pubblicati sono soggetti ad un processo di referaggio esterno di cui sono responsabili il Consiglio editoriale della FUP e i Consigli scientifici delle singole collane. Le opere pubblicate nel catalogo della FUP sono valutate e approvate dal Consiglio editoriale della casa editrice. Per una descrizione più analitica del processo di referaggio si rimanda ai documenti ufficiali pubblicati sul catalogo on-line della casa editrice (www.fupress.com). La Fondazione Datini si dichiara fin d'ora disponibile ad assolvere i suoi obblighi per l'utilizzo delle immagini contenute nel volume nei confronti di eventuali aventi diritto.

Studia UBB Historia , 2017

Research on urban habitation can reflect various and sundry aspects. This study aims to undertake an analysis of the houses of Timişoara's eighteenth-century residents from a micro-historical perspective. Using methods of cultural and social history and examining archival documents such as inventories and wills, we shall try to find out what a house looked like inside, what decorations or furniture garnished the rooms, what activities the household members fancied, which kind of food or clothing was available for them, etc. The article starts by presenting a general frame of the living conditions in this Habsburg fortress, followed by details of the townspeople's private life. In order to do that, we highlight the association of several types of sources, but also the way information about assets appears in documents. From poorer inventories to the most complex wills, the sources cover a wide range of subdomains of the so-called "la petite histoire". Through the three case studies presented here, we shall attempt to understand if living in the town by the Bega resembled habitation conditions in Early Modern Europe, and whether Timişoara's dwellers were aware of what was in fashion on the rest of the continent. The analysis of the three examples starts by exploring the location of the house and continues with considerations on its internal structure, its landlords/ tenants and the description of the goods. The images resulting here provide an unexpected and vivid introspection into the domestic sphere three hundred years ago. Rezumat: În casele orășenilor din alte vremuri. O introducere în studiul locuințelor din Timișoara secolului al XVIII-lea. Cercetarea locuirii urbane poate îmbrăca diverse și numeroase fețe. Studiul acesta își propune analiza din perspectivă microistorică a locuințelor timișorenilor din secolul XVIII. Folosind metodele istoriei culturale și sociale și valorificând documente inedite precum inventarele și testamentele, încercăm să descoperim cum anume arata un interior de casă, ce obiecte de decor sau de mobilier înfrumusețau camerele, cum își împărțeau timpul membrii unei gospodării, ce hrană sau ce îmbrăcăminte aveau la dispoziție etc. Articolul pornește de la condițiile generale de trai în cetatea habsburgică, pentru a intra apoi in detaliile vieții private a orășenilor. Pentru asta, scoatem în evidență

Transylvanian Review, 2019