Europe's rich fabric : the consumption, commercialisation, and production of luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries)
2016, First Edition. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Publishing. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476780
Physical description; 282 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover – Contents – List of Tables, Figures and Plates – Notes on Contributors – Preface – Introduction: Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries): A Conceptual Investigation – Part I Consumption of Luxury Textiles – 1 'In the chamber, in the garde robe, in the chapel, in a chest': The Possession and Uses of Luxury Textiles. The Case of Later Medieval Dijon – 2 'O per honore, o per commodo mio': Displaying Textiles at the Gonzaga Court (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) – 3 Between Mass and 'Mystère': The Life of Saint Remigius and the Ceremonial Function of Choir Tapestries – Part II Commercialisation of Luxury Textiles – 4 'Se fist riche par draps de soye': The Intertwinement of Italian Financial Interests and Luxury Trade at the Burgundian Court (1384-1481) – 5 Florence, Nuremberg and Beyond: Italian Silks in Central Europe during the Renaissance – 6 Trading Silks and Tapestries in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp – Part III Production of Luxury Textiles – 7 The Move to Quality Cloth. Luxury Textiles, Labour Markets and Middle Class Identity in a Medieval Textile City. Mechelen in the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries – 8 Woollen Luxury Cloth in Late Medieval Italy – 9 A Luxury Industry: The Production of Italian Silks 1400-1600 – Centres, Peripheries and the Performative Textile: By Way of Conclusion – Index. Subjects; Textile industry – Europe – History – To 1500 – Congresses.
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