Fighting hydra-like luxury : sumptuary regulation in the Roman Republic / / Emanuela Zanda
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| Autore: |
Zanda Emanuela
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| Titolo: |
Fighting hydra-like luxury : sumptuary regulation in the Roman Republic / / Emanuela Zanda
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 345.37027 |
| 937.02 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Roman law |
| Sumptuary laws (Roman law) | |
| Sumptuary laws | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-166) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: the evil of luxury -- The Roman response to luxury -- Previous measures against extravagance -- Sumptuary laws -- Sumptuary legislation in comparative prespective. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From the Old Testament to Elizabethan England, luxury has been morally condemned. In Rome, sumptuary laws (laws controlling consumption) seemed the only weapon to defeat ''hydra-like luxury'', the terrible monster that was weakening even the strongest citizens. The first Roman sumptuary law, the Lex Appia, declared that no woman could possess more than a half ounce of gold, wear a dress of different colours, or ride in a carriage in any city unless for a public ceremony. Laws listed how many different colours could be worn by members of different social classes: peasants could wear one colour |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fighting hydra-like luxury |
| ISBN: | 1-4725-1969-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787502403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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