The Power of Peasant Consumers The Material Culture of Food in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Valencia
Book contents
- The Power of Peasant Consumers
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
- The Power of Peasant Consumers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Illustrations
- Money and Measures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Material Culture
- Part II Consumption
- Part III Standards of Living
- Chapter 11 Peasant Incomes
- Chapter 12 Prices of Food-Related Objects
- Chapter 13 Expenditure on Consumption
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Consumption
- Part IV The Logic of Peasant Consumer Behaviour
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 13 - Expenditure on Consumption
from Part III - Standards of Living
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 November 2025
Book contents
- The Power of Peasant Consumers
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought
- The Power of Peasant Consumers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Illustrations
- Money and Measures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Material Culture
- Part II Consumption
- Part III Standards of Living
- Chapter 11 Peasant Incomes
- Chapter 12 Prices of Food-Related Objects
- Chapter 13 Expenditure on Consumption
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Consumption
- Part IV The Logic of Peasant Consumer Behaviour
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The purpose of this chapter is to estimate expenditure on consumption by cross-referencing the nominal prices of food-related objects with the quantified consumption levels obtained earlier in this book. This is an appropriate way to explore how far consumption increased in monetary terms, the changes in its composition over time and its impact on peasant incomes. Estimating expenditure on food-related objects proves also a good way of exploring how much these goods represented as a share of movable wealth, as well as what these types of items represented as compared to other goods owned by peasant households.
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- The Power of Peasant ConsumersThe Material Culture of Food in the Late Medieval Kingdom of Valencia, pp. 265 - 281Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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