Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

Bert De Munck is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a member of the Centre for Urban History at the same university and Director of both the interdisciplinary Urban Studies Institute and the Scientific Research Community (WOG) ’Urban Agency. Setting the Research Agenda of Urban History’. His publications include Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities (2014, co-edited with Karel Davids); Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (2012, co-edited with Anne Winter); Technologies of Learning: Apprenticeship in Antwerp from the 15th Century to the End of the Ancien Régime (2007); and Learning on the Shop Floor: Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship (2007, co-edited with Hugo Soly and Steven L. Kaplan). Dries Lyna is an Assistant Professor of History at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. His areas of interest include the history of urban economies, material culture and art markets of the Low Countries, from the late seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. He has received fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Commission, the Getty Research Institute, the International Economic History Association and the Belgian American Educational Foundation. His publications include Art Auctions and Dealers: The Dissemination of Netherlandish Art during the Ancien Régime (2009, co-edited with Filip Vermeylen and Hans Vlieghe); and Art Crossing Borders: The International Art Market in the Age of Nation States, 1760-1914 (forthcoming, co-edited with Jan Baetens).

• Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

There are a lot of very interesting pieces of information and useful details to be found throughout the collection. Take, for example, the contributions by Jeggle and Lyna in part 1; (...) In part 2, both barbot and bettoni focus on different aspects of northern Italian economic history; of these two, the former's article deserves notice for the comparative large amount of original research and the useful and well-thought-out arguments." - Stephan Sander-Faes, University of Zurich, Switzerland.