“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen and bourgeois suffered along with the peasants as food costs took an ever-higher proportion of their… — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
“Sumptuary laws were passed to regulate fashions, particularly those of the third order.37 Rising standards of living and Epicurean attitudes had produced new tastes… — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen… — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.” — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
