ABSTRACT This paper uses the burgh court records of Aberdeen to explore the material culture of medieval Scottish townspeople. Four main areas are explored: the use of pawning and pledges to facilitate commercial transactions and maintain solvency; the practice of distraint as a means of coercion and debt recovery; the passage of burgesses’ moveable goods to their heirs; and the significance of clothing in public display. Precious metal objects featured prominently among the goods deployed to enable their owners to fulfil their obligations although the poor sometimes had to part with the most basic goods. For some in Aberdeen, the sixteenth century saw a rise in ownership of luxuries, including expensive clothes, although this may not have spread to ordinary people in town and country, and possession itself was, for some, insecure. Nonetheless it is clear that Scotland participated in the growing consumerism evident elsewhere in later medieval and Renaissance Europe.

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债务，束缚，展示和死去的人的财宝：中世纪阿伯丁后期的物质文化

摘要本文使用阿伯丁（Aberdeen）的法庭记录来探索中世纪苏格兰城镇居民的物质文化。探讨了四个主要领域：使用典当和抵押来促进商业交易和维持偿付能力；克制作为胁迫和追偿债务的手段；汉堡的可移动物品进入其继承人的通道；以及服装在公共展示中的意义。贵重金属物品在所部署的商品中占有突出的地位，以使所有者能够履行其义务，尽管穷人有时不得不放弃最基本的商品。对于阿伯丁的某些人来说，十六世纪时他们拥有的奢侈品（包括昂贵的衣服）的所有权有所增加，尽管这可能尚未蔓延到城镇和乡村的普通百姓，而且对于某些人来说，财产本身是不安全的。