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REVISTA ISTORICĂ SERIE NOUĂ TOMUL XXIX, NR. 1–2 ianuarie – aprilie 2018 SUMAR FOREWORD CONSTANŢA VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, Material Culture, Medical Consumption and Everyday Life in South-Eastern Europe. An Introduction.................................................................... 5 MATERIAL CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE OVIDIU CRISTEA, Diplomacy and Gifts in Constantinople: The Book of Accounts of Bailo Piero Bragadin (1524–1526) ......................................................................................................... 15 MICHAŁ WASIUCIONEK, Silks and Stones: Fountains, Painted Kaftans, and Ottomans in Early Modern Moldavia and Wallachia......................................................................................... 33 MÁRIA PAKUCS-WILLCOCKS, Transylvanian Civic Sumptuary Laws in the Early Modern Period: Preliminary Observations.......................................................................................... 55 DAVID CELETTI, French Residents in Ottoman Crete: Trade, Diplomacy and Daily Life in the Early Eighteenth Century ................................................................................................ 75 NICOLETA ROMAN, Dowry Contracts, Women’s Objects and the Circulation of Goods in Mid-Nineteenth Century Romanian Families. The Case of Oltenia ...................................... 105 ANASTASIA FALIEROU, Urban Transformation of the Mytilenian Bourgeoisie: The Case of the Kourtzis Family ............................................................................................................... 141 MEDICAL CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE SORIN GRIGORUŢĂ, The Price of Health. The Cost of Medical Treatment in Premodern Moldavia .............................................................................................................................. 163 CONSTANTIN ARDELEANU, The Danubian Leech Trade in the 19th Century. The Global Market of a Tiny Product ..................................................................................................... 177 „Revista istorică”, tom XXIX, 2018, nr. 1–2, p. 1–205 2 SCIENTIFIC LIFE International Workshop: Circulation of People, Objects and Knowledge across South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, European University Institute, Florence, 11–12 May 2017 (Nicoleta Roman); International Conference: Movable Goods and Immovable Property. Gender, Law and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (1450–1850), German Historical Institute, London, 19–21 July 2018 (Nicoleta Roman) .......................... 189 NOTES AND REVIEWS IEROMONAHUL ANDRONIC, Călătoria la Muntele Athos (1858–1859), ed. by PETRONEL ZAHARIUC, Edit. Universităţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza,” Iaşi, 2015, 254 pp. (Nicoleta Roman); ALEX DRACE-FRANCIS, Geneza culturii române moderne. Instituţiile scrisului şi dezvoltarea identităţii naţionale, 1700–1900, transl. by Marius-Adrian Hazaparu, Polirom, Iaşi, 2016, 264 pp. (Nicoleta Roman); POSTELNICUL MANOLACHI DRĂGHICI, Istoria Moldovei pe timp de 500 de ani pînă în zilele noastre, ed. by ANDREI PIPPIDI, Edit. Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2017, 327 pp. + annexes (Constanţa Vintilă- Ghiţulescu); H.H.A. HÖTTE, Atlas of Southeast Europe. Geopolitics and History, vol. II, 1699–1815, ed. by BÉLA VILMOS MIHALIK, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2017, iv + 108 pp. (Andrei Nacu); BARBARA STOLLBERG-RILINGER, Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit. Eine Biographie, C.H. Beck, Munich, 2017, 1083 pp., ills. + maps (Mária Pakucs-Willcocks) .......................................................................................... 195 HISTORICAL REVIEW NEW SERIES TOME XXIX, NOS. 1–2 January – April 2018 CONTENTS FOREWORD CONSTANŢA VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU, Material Culture, Medical Consumption and Everyday Life in South-Eastern Europe. An Introduction.................................................................... 5 MATERIAL CULTURE AND CONSUMPTION IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE OVIDIU CRISTEA, Diplomacy and Gifts in Constantinople: The Book of Accounts of Bailo Piero Bragadin (1524–1526) ......................................................................................................... 15 MICHAŁ WASIUCIONEK, Silks and Stones: Fountains, Painted Kaftans, and Ottomans in Early Modern Moldavia and Wallachia......................................................................................... 33 MÁRIA PAKUCS-WILLCOCKS, Transylvanian Civic Sumptuary Laws in the Early Modern Period: Preliminary Observations.......................................................................................... 55 DAVID CELETTI, French Residents in Ottoman Crete: Trade, Diplomacy and Daily Life in the Early Eighteenth Century ................................................................................................ 75 NICOLETA ROMAN, Dowry Contracts, Women’s Objects and the Circulation of Goods in Mid-Nineteenth Century Romanian Families. The Case of Oltenia ...................................... 105 ANASTASIA FALIEROU, Urban Transformation of the Mytilenian Bourgeoisie: The Case of the Kourtzis Family ............................................................................................................... 141 MEDICAL CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE SORIN GRIGORUŢĂ, The Price of Health. The Cost of Medical Treatment in Premodern Moldavia .............................................................................................................................. 163 CONSTANTIN ARDELEANU, The Danubian Leech Trade in the 19th Century. The Global Market of a Tiny Product ..................................................................................................... 177 „Revista istorică”, tom XXIX, 2018, nr. 1–2, p. 1–205 4 SCIENTIFIC LIFE International Workshop: Circulation of People, Objects and Knowledge across South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, European University Institute, Florence, 11–12 May 2017 (Nicoleta Roman); International Conference: Movable Goods and Immovable Property. Gender, Law and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (1450–1850), German Historical Institute, London, 19–21 July 2018 (Nicoleta Roman) .......................... 189 NOTES AND REVIEWS IEROMONAHUL ANDRONIC, Călătoria la Muntele Athos (1858–1859) (The Voyage to Mount Athos. 1858–1859), ed. by PETRONEL ZAHARIUC, Edit. Universităţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza,” Iaşi, 2015, 254 pp. (Nicoleta Roman); ALEX DRACE-FRANCIS, Geneza culturii române moderne. Instituţiile scrisului şi dezvoltarea identităţii naţionale, 1700–1900 (The Making of Modern Romanian Culture: Literacy and the Development of National Identity. 1700–1900), transl. by Marius-Adrian Hazaparu, Polirom, Iaşi, 2016, 264 pp. (Nicoleta Roman); POSTELNICUL MANOLACHI DRĂGHICI, Istoria Moldovei pe timp de 500 de ani pînă în zilele noastre (The History of Moldavia for 500 Years until Our Days), ed. by ANDREI PIPPIDI, Edit. Academiei Române, Bucharest, 2017, 327 pp. + annexes (Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu); H.H.A. HÖTTE, Atlas of Southeast Europe. Geopolitics and History, vol. II, 1699–1815, ed. by BÉLA VILMOS MIHALIK, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2017, iv + 108 pp. (Andrei Nacu); BARBARA STOLLBERG- RILINGER, Maria Theresia. Die Kaiserin in ihrer Zeit. Eine Biographie, C.H. Beck, Munich, 2017, 1083 pp., ills. + maps (Mária Pakucs-Willcocks)......................................... 195 FOREWORD MATERIAL CULTURE, MEDICAL CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE. AN INTRODUCTION* CONSTANŢA VINTILĂ-GHIŢULESCU** Luxury and consumption are multifaceted concepts which have been constantly re-evaluated over time. Today, thanks to new trends in historiography, these concepts have become important analytical tools in global history research. Luxury, novelties, consumption, merchants, elites, artisans, advertising, goods, networks, long distance global connections are some of the research topics proposed by recent studies in global history. Maxine Berg argues the term luxury gained positive connotations during the 18th century, being associated with the development of trade and of the economy in general.1 However, it was only in the last two decades that consumption and luxury have inspired a whole range of research and researchers.2 For instance, in her projects, Berg uses these concepts to analyse how the East India Company stimulated luxury consumption via trade exchanges among Great Britain, India and China. Luxury and Pleasure is the title of one of her books in which Berg highlights, from the very beginning, the convenient relationship between luxury and delight.3 Starting with the 18th century, luxury and consumption define a new * This study was supported by the ERC-2014-CoG no. 646489 grant, Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe (LuxFaSS), financed by the European Research Council and hosted by the New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest. My special thanks for the English translation of this study are addressed to Dr. Iuliu Raţiu. ** “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History/New Europe College, Bucharest; cvintilaghitulescu@ gmail.com. 1 Maxine Berg, Elizabeth Eger, The Rise and Fall of Luxury Debates, in Luxury in the Eighteenth Century. Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods, ed. by Maxine Berg et al., New York, 2003, pp. 7–11. 2 I mention here only some of the research studies focusing on luxury and consumption. Other studies will be mentioned throughout this introduction. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. by Arjun Appadurai, Cambridge, 1986; Consumption and the