Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2 who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and ‘high culture’ to cement their elite status and underline their authority. Thus, the display of luxurious items was also a … to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness , conversation , all rely on the refinement created by luxury. Thus, shopping for luxury goods … of the Art Market in England (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 54. 11 . Stana Nenadic, ‘Print Collecting and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, History (vol. 82, no. 266, April 1997) p. 203-207. Luxury, Women, and the Lower …
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