Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… who has argued that in a premodern society an ‘Old Luxury’ prevailed, functioning as ‘a prerogative of the privileged classes of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2 who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and … available to evermore citizens. Luxury goods were no longer only displayed by an elite but also by members of the middle class, even working people, in sociable contexts, for instance at the tea-table (china) and dances (dress), likewise in … to community and human interaction. Many British readers had obtained initial awareness of the luxury debates through classical Greek and Roman literature. 4 Especially, tales of the rise to power and wealth of Rome and its ultimate fall …
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
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