Europe's rich fabric : the consumption, commercialisation, and production of luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / edited by Bart Lambert, Katherine Anne Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lambert, Bart, editor.

Wilson, Katherine Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textile industry--Europe--History--To 1500.

Textile industry.

Textile industry--Europe--History--16th century.

Luxury goods industry--Europe--History--To 1500.

Luxury goods industry.

Luxury goods industry--Europe--History--16th century.

Textile fabrics--Social aspects--Europe--History--To 1500.

Textile fabrics.

Textile fabrics--Social aspects--Europe--History--16th century.

Textile fabrics--Social aspects.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 249 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction : luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) : a conceptual investigation / Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson

Consumption of luxury textiles. 'In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest' : the possession and uses of luxury textiles. The case of later medieval Dijon / Katherine Anne Wilson

'O per honore, o per commodo mio' : displaying textiles at the Gonzaga court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Christina Antenhofer

Between mass and 'mystère' : the life of Saint Remigius and the ceremonial function of choir tapestries / Laura Weigert

Commercialisation of luxury textiles. 'Se fist riche par draps de soye' : the intertwinement of Italian financial interests and luxury trade at the Burgundian court (1384-1481) / Bart Lambert

Florence, Nuremberg and beyond : Italian silks in Central Europe during the Renaissance / Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli

Trading silks and tapestries in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Jeroen Puttevils

Production of luxury textiles. 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 / Peter Stabel

Woolen luxury cloth in late medieval Italy / Franco Franceschi

A luxury industry : the production of Italian silks 1400-1600 / Luca Molà

Centres, peripheries and the performative textile : by way of conclusion / Graeme Small.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409444428

1409444422

OCLC:

915323897