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You'll be interested to know that Thomas Piketty devotes a chapter or two to his sourcing of pricing from contemporaneous fiction. he observes that over a period from 1500 to 1800 or so, the prices for most goods was largely unchanged and inflation was not a factor. He even goes as far as pointing out that in antiquity, writers were much more likely to put the prices of items in their prose because they couldn't be expected to change in the foreseeable future.