From Spice to Tea
On Consumer Choice and the Justification of Value in the Early Modern Low Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4774546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wouter Ryckbosch (0000-0003-0269-4950, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 242 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-78 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Past & Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2746 • E-ISSN: 1477-464X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pastj/gty046 |
| OpenAlex | W2912019796 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article uses the case of exotic comestibles consumed in the Low Countries to study the problem of continuity versus transformation in early modern consumer behaviour. The paradigm of changing consumer behaviour resulting from the emergence of the market economy has increasingly been rejected by scholars of late medieval and Renaissance material culture. However, an integrated approach that attempts to bridge the conceptual and methodological gap has so far been missing. By examining a large body of discursive sources on the introduction of exotic comestibles in the early modern Low Countries from a fresh theoretical perspective (that of conventions theory), this article proposes a novel reconciliation between the two perspectives on the history of consumption before the Industrial Revolution. The focus on exotic goods also allows for a nuanced perspective on the role of the non-western world in shaping new consumer patterns, and contributing to the great transformation in European economy and society.
Art · Business · Consumer behaviour · Consumption (sociology) · Early Modern Europe · Economics · Economy · Industrial Revolution · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · The Renaissance · Value (mathematics) · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Marketing · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |