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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