Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe

Johanna Ilmakunnas is acting Professor of Finnish History at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published widely on eighteenth-century cultural and social history. Her most recent publications include Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650–1860 (2017, co-edited with Marjatta Rahikainen and Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen).Jon Stobart is Professor of Social History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His most recent publications are Consumption and the Country House: Elite Spending and Identities in Georgian England (2016, co-authored with Mark Rothery) and The Country House: Material Culture and Consumption (2015, co-edited with Andrew Hann). He is also Founding Editor of the new journal, History of Retailing and Consumption.

• Display, Acquisition and Boundaries of Luxury and Taste – Johanna Ilmakunnas (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Jon Stobart (University of Northampton, UK)Part I: Displaying Taste and Luxury1. The Fabric of a Corporate Society: Sumptuary Laws, Social Order and Propriety in Early Modern Tallinn – Astrid Pajur (Uppsala University, Sweden)2. New and Old Luxuries Between the Court and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Material Cultures in Brussels and Antwerp, 1650–1735 – Bruno Blondé and Veerle de Laet (University of Antwerp, Belgium)3. Luxury and Taste in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Representations, Ideas and Social Practices at the Intersection Between the Global and the Local – Alida Clemente (University of Foggia, Italy).4. What About the Moorish Footman? Portrait of a Dutch Nabob as a Dedicated Follower of Fashion– Yme Kuiper (University of Groningen, Netherlands)5. Fashion and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Germany – Michael North (University of Greifswald, Germany)Part II: Making and Acquiring Taste6. Taste Inequalities in the Art Consumption of Prince Nicolaus I Esterházy ‘the Magnificent’ – Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)7. Making an English Country House: Taste and Luxury in the Furnishing of Stoneleigh Abbey, 1763–1765 – Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)8. Between the Exotic and the Everyday: Sabine Winn at Home 1765–1798 – Kerry Bristol (University of Leeds, UK)9. Books, Wine and Fine China: Consumption Patterns of a Brukspatron in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden – Marie Steinrud (Stockholm University, Sweden)10. To Buy a Plate: Retail and Shopping for Porcelain and Faience in Stockholm During the Eighteenth Century – Sofia Murhem and Göran Ulväng (Uppsala University, Sweden)Section III: Crossing Boundaries of Taste and Luxury11. A Taste for French Style in Bourbon Spain: Food, Drink and Clothing in 1740s Madrid – Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) and Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset (Victoria & Albert Museum, UK and Château de Versailles, France)12. French Fashions: Aspects of Elite Lifestyle in Eighteenth-Century Sweden – Johanna Ilmakunnas (University of Helsinki, Finland)13. English Luxuries in Nineteenth-Century Vyborg – Ulla Ijäs (University of Helsinki, Finland)14. Luxury Goods Beyond Boundaries: The Parisian Market During the Terror – Natacha Coquery (University of Lyon 2, France)BibliographyIndex

The contributions in this book are well connected and constitute an important step forward in providing new perspectives on a topic which has been the subject of much scholarly work.