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- Title
Moral marketplaces: regulating the food markets of late Elizabethan and early Stuart London.
- Authors
Taverner, Charlie
- Abstract
This article examines the economic culture of urban food markets in early modern England. It focuses on London between 1590 and 1640 to argue that market regulation, even in fast-growing, commercializing cities, was underpinned by moralized values. It also assesses a largely untapped citywide book of fines, containing payments for regulatory offences. The first section outlines London's market system and regulation, the second looks at enforcement in practice and the third discusses the underlying values. This contributes to our understanding of day-to-day food marketing and proposes that studies of 'moral economy' should examine everyday commerce and major cities.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; FOOD marketing; METROPOLIS; MARKETPLACES
- Publication
Urban History, 2021, Vol 7, Issue 4, p608
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926820000450