Consuming Splendor: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England

Abstract

1. 'I must have a pair of Damasked spurs': shopping in seventeenth-century London 2. 'We may as well be silk-masters as sheep-masters': transferring technology in seventeenth-century England 3. 'What do you lack? What isn't you buy?': creating new wants 4. 'Anything that is strange': from rarities to luxury goods 5. 'Examine but my humors in buildings, gardening, and private expenses': cultural exchange and the new built environment 6. 'The pictures I desire to have ... must be exquisitely done and by the best masters': luxury and war: 1640-60 7. 'Rome's artists in this nature can do no more': a Bernini in Chelsea 8. 'The largest, best built, and richest city in the world': The Royal Society, luxury manufactures, and aristocratic identity 9. New wants, new wares: luxury consumption, cultural change, and economic transformation.