Abstract
List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Preface - Why Study Sumptuary Law? - A Short History of Sumptuary Law - Tilting Against the Windmills of Fashion? - 'As if God Did Not Make Us Fine Enough': The Discourses of Luxury - The Fundamental Contradiction of Sumptuary Regulation -Recognizability: 'The Mingle Mangle of Apparel' - Style Wars: Fashion and the Class Struggle Before Classes - Governing the City: Regulation, State Formation and the Coming of Modernity -Gender Wars: Sex, Power and Resistance - Misogyny and the Political Economy of Marriage: 'The Detestable Wickedness of Women' - Moral Regulation and Popular Culture - Mapping a Sumptuary Tradition: The English Experience - Enforcing Sumptory Law - Death or Transformation? The Fate of the Sumptuary Impulse - Sumptuary Law, Regulation and Governance - Appendix: English Sumptuary Statutes - Bibliographical References - Index
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