posted on 2019-05-08, 02:40authored byAndré Boucinhas
Abstract The article presents, through various sources - periodicals, post-mortem inventories, voter qualification lists, novels -, the living conditions of Court workers, in order to show that despite the difficulties there was a margin for the consumption of superfluous products and even accumulation of goods, and that their choices in the market are not results of a pure economic logic, but, as Giovanni Levi argued, reflect important aspects of the culture of these groups.