Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law by Alan Hunt

Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Law

Alan Hunt

466 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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Examines sumptuary laws laws which regulate conspicuous consumption in respect to dress, ornaments, food, and expenditure at weddings and other rites in the context of a historical and comparative sociology of governance which contends that legal ...

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