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Social Sciences - History | | English term or phrase: sumptuary law | sumptuary law, any law designed to restrict excessive personal expenditures in the interest of preventing extravagance and luxury. The term denotes regulations restricting extravagance in food, drink, dress, and household equipment, usually on religious or moral grounds. Such laws have proved difficult or impossible to enforce over the long term.
Sumptuary laws are of ancient origin, and numerous instances are to be found in ancient Greece. The Spartan inhabitants of Laconia, for example, were forbidden to attend drinking entertainments and were also forbidden to own a house or furniture that was the work of more elaborate implements than the ax and saw. The possession of gold or silver was also forbidden to the Spartans, their legislation permitting only the use of iron money. A system of sumptuary laws was extensively developed in ancient Rome; a series of laws beginning in 215 bc governed the materials of which garments could be made and the number of guests at entertainments and forbade the consumption of certain foods.
Type of document: Scientific book. Description of different rules and sets of artefacts that confirms existence of sumptuary law. One of paragraphs claims that sometimes sumptuary rules were not obeyed, because owners of artefacts were not rich enough to furniture their houses (or graves) with items they could have according to their sumptuary status. Term is used in such compounds as: sumptuary rules, sumptuary law, sumptuary status...
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