Collection of 11 essays in English.
Locating and dislocating value : a pragmatic approach to early modern and nineteenth-century economic practices / Bert De Munck and Dries Lyna
PART I. EXPANDING MARKETS AND MARKET DEVICES. Labelling with numbers? : weavers, merchants and the valuation of linen in seventeenth-century Münster / Christof Jeggle
Words of value? : art auctions and semiotic socialisation in the Austrian Netherlands (1750-1794) / Dries Lyna
From a 'knowledgeable' salesman towards a 'recognizable' product? : questioning branding strategies before industrialization (Antwerp, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) / Ilja Van Damme
Golden touchstones? : the culture of auctions of paintings in Brussels, 1830-1900 / Anneleen Arnout
PART II. CONVENTIONS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS. The justness of aestimatio and the justice of transactions : defining real estate values in early modern Milan / Michela Barbot
Vehicles of disinterested pleasure : French painting and non-remunerative value in the eighteenth century / Tomas Macsotay
Usefulness, ornamental function and novelty : debates on quality in button and buckle manufacturing in northern Italy (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Barbara Bettoni
PART III. THE OLD AND THE NEW. 'Façon de Venise' : determining the value of glass in early modern Europe / Corine Maitte
The veneer of age : valuing the patina of silver in eighteenth-century Britain / Helen Clifford
The value of a collection : collecting practices in early modern Europe / Adriana Turpin.
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Concepts of value in European material culture, 1500-1900. ISBN 9781472451965. Published by Ashgate in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
