Contents: Introduction; Art and its markets, Michael North & David Ormrod; Manuscript acquisition by the Burgundian court and the market for books in the 15th-century Netherlands, Wim Blockmans; Some aspects of the origins of the art market in 15th-century Bruges, Maximiliaan P. J. Martens; Is art a barometer of wealth? Medieval art exports to the far north of Europe, Jan von Bonsdorff; Artistic enterprise and Spanish patronage: the art market during the reign of Isabel of Castile (1474-1504), Mari-Tere Alvarez; The Italian Renaissance courts' demand for the arts: the case of d'Este of Ferrara (1471-1560), Guido Guerzoni; The Roman art market in the 16th and 17th century, Volker Reinhardt; The Upper German trade in art and curiosities before the Thirty Years War, Renate Pieper; Pricing the unpriced: how Dutch 17th-century painters determined the selling price of their work, Marten Jan Bok; Dealer-dealer pricing in the mid 17th-century Antwerp-to-Paris art trade, Neil de Marchil, Hans Van Miegroet and Matthew E. Raiff; Probate inventories, public sales and the Parisian art market in the 17th century, Antoine Schnapper; Art auctions in Germany during the 18th century, Thomas Ketelsen; Arenas of connoisseurship: auctioning art in later Stuart England, Brian Cowan; The origins of the London art market, 1660-1730 , David Ormrod; Commerce and the commodity: graphic display and selling new consumer goods in 18th-century England, Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford; Intrigue, jewellery and economics: court culture and display in England and France in 1780s, Marcia Pointon; Bibliography; Index.