Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England This study attempts to trace through a considerable period of English history the laws which regulated the intimate personal conduct of men in distinction from their general political rights and duties. Most of these regulations can be classified as surptuary in the sense that they governed the amount and direction of individual expenditures and that by means of them the legislators of the past "sought to regulate the private life of a citizen in every respect: the fashion of his clothes, the number of courses at his meals, how many guests he might have at wedding, dinner or dance, how long he should be permitted to haunt the tavern and how much he should drink".... Consideration has also been given, however, to other ordinances of a paternal character which from a modern point of view seem burdensome and unnecessary, So, too, the ordinary police regulations, without which no society can exist, are introduced from time to time for comparison in the setting of their own day. The subject throws much light upon the civilization of the times when these laws were in operation, and the treatment here adopted endeavors to exhibit them in the surroundings of contemporary social history. No attempt is made to sharpen legal definitions, for the Middle Ages took it for granted that every government had the right to check extravagance and restrain luxury for the public good (since luxury in individuals was presumed to lead to the corruption of the state and even by weakening it to endanger its national existence). The philosophical discussion of this matter which took place in later times probably hastened the disuse of this right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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