Item Number: 136026 Title: Europe's Rich Fabric : The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries) Author: Lambert, Bart ; Katherine Anne Wilson (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409444428 Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 249pp., 19 color, 5 b&w illus. Summary: Contents: Preface; Introduction: Luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (14th to 16th centuries): a conceptual investigation, Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson. Part I 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 15th and 16th centuries, Christina Antenhofer; Between mass and ‘mystère’: the Life of Saint Remigius and the ceremonial function of choir tapestries, Laura Weigert. Part II 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 16th-century Antwerp, Jeroen Puttevils. Part III 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 13th and early 14th 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.
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