Isbn: 9780880450010 - an introduction to courtly jewellery (v & a museum introductions to the decorative arts) (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Jewellery has been worn at all times for personal adornment. Even the poor can usually contrive to wear some sort of bright knick-knack. Jewellery made of gemstones and precious metals rep- resents wealth as well as adornment, and during the three centuries surveyed in this book, jewellery was exchanged among the rich as part of the ceremony of courtly life. Many of the pieces illustrated here are elaborate and expensive courtly jewellery, but stylistic changes can also be studied on more modest pieces. A convenient starting point for the history of English jewellery is a sumptuary law (i.c. a law to regulate what private citizens on luxury goods) passed in 1363, when Edward III was King of spent England. This law is most revealing to anyone interested in social history and the history of jewellery. It seems that too many of the wrong sorts of people had started to wear jewellery, so that the visible differences of rank were being obscured and the wealth of the realm was being squandered. Consequently, the.…