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Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600. By Evelyn Welch. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. ix + 403 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 0-300-10752-8

Kathryn Reyerson is professor of history at the University of MinnesotaTwin Cities. She is the author of numerous books and articles on the medieval economy, including Business, Banking and Finance in Medieval Montpellier (1985), The Art of the Deal: Intermediaries of Trade in Medieval Montpellier (2002), and Jacques Coeur: Entrepreneur and Ring's Bursar (2004). At present she is working on a book about women in the medieval economy, law, and society.