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Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England.(Book review)
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Consuming Splendour: Society and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England, by Linda Levy Peck. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005. xvi, 431 pp. $35.00 US (cloth).
This sumptuous book will doubtless become a classic treatment of seventeenth-century elite consumer culture in England, a volume beautifully illustrated and, in contrast to its topic, moderately priced. The author's extensive knowledge of Jacobean and Stuart courts and the careers of powerful personages, like Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, provide a unique context, with scenes richly figured by courtiers, ...
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