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The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris : Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience / Sharon Farmer.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Sharon A., author.
- Series:
- Middle Ages series.
- The Middle Ages Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silk industry--France--Paris--History--To 1500.
- Silk industry.
- Silk manufacturers--France--Paris--History--To 1500.
- Silk manufacturers.
- Immigrants--France--Paris--History--To 1500.
- Immigrants.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (365 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Sharon Farmer analyzes the evidence concerning the medieval silk industry, adding new perspectives to our understanding of medieval French history, luxury trade, labor migration, intercultural exchange, and gendered work.
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Note on Nomenclature and Money
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Paris, City of Immigrants
- Chapter 2. From Persian Cocoon to Soie de Paris: Trade Networks and Silk Techniques
- Chapter 3. Immigrant Mercers and Silk Workers
- Chapter 4. Gender, Work, and the Parisian Silk Industry
- Chapter 5. Jews, Foreign Lombards, and Parisian Silk Women
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. Mediterranean Immigrants Paying Taxes as "Bourgeois of Paris" or Included on Parisian Guild Lists
- Appendix 2. Mercers in the Parisian Tax Assessments, Arranged by Neighborhood
- Appendix 3. Silk Weavers in the Parisian Tax Assessments
- Appendix 4. Silk Throwsters in the Parisian Tax Assessments
- Appendix 5. Ouvriers/Ouvrieres de Soie in the Parisian Tax Assessments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)
- ISBN:
- 9780812293319
- OCLC:
- 961064564
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