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Sumptuary? |
*Limits on private expenditure |
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How were sumptuary laws started and how did people receive them? |
*Not liked from the beginning --Some like Franco Sacchetti thought it allowed what it try cntrl. +Ppl. avoid write ups from clothing laws ^Came from Venetian State in 1443 ^^Women not wear dress cut of gold/silver[outlawed in 1472 and enforcd more in 1488] * Some ppl didn't like Padua sumptuary law of 1504 either --Thought it infringed on their liberties --Others thought it just tried cut down female licence *Sumptuary laws turned to Renaissance codes --Changed constantly --Italian cities had 83 sumpt. laws in 15th cent. --Affected other legal decisions +League of Cambrai Crisis of 1512 ^Attack on Venice eminent ^^Senate argued dress and home materials --Senate argue on dress/home came from fear of God's wrath +Cntrl. moral foundation/consumption --Not all sumptuary laws followed crisis +Lots mjr. cities had theirs before Black Death[1347] --Not easily linked to current economics |
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How did sumptuary laws start in Italy and how did it affect the population? |
*Possible start in Genoa --1157 law code[Breve della Campagna] --Banned rich furs *Other cities got their laws few yrs. later --Siena 1249 +Dress train regulations --Bologna 1260 +Like Siena's --Florence 1281 + |
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How did sumptuary laws affect men relying on wives' dowries for support? |
*Marriage was process of moving to another sumptuary status --Certain places women not wear extravg. clothes [Bologna 1289/Lucca 1337] +Genoese law also [1449] ^Girls give up child jewelry when married ^Limit on clothes received from bride/husbands fam. when married [3yrs.] ^Could go from sponsa to matrona when w/ child *Lots cities thought marriage was a source of social disorder --Fathers and daughters had it worst +Venetian fathers began lock daughters away ^Dowries, trousseaux, and nuptial gifts too high$$$ --Venetian senate regulated marital gifts +1600 ducats for dowry/trousseau +Dowries went up and so did laws ^Young men not marry unless big dowry ^^Bride father/bros. made poor *Women who did marry seemed have more cntrl. over husbands --Made husbands mad --Some husbands lives depended on dowries --New laws restrict in Padua 1555 +Offenders father or husbnd. pay 25 ducats --Sienna 1438 had lots sumptry. law marriage cases |
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