Europe's Rich Fabric : The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Florence : Taylor and Francis,
2016
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| Schlagworte: | Textile industry Luxury goods industry Textile fabrics Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (282 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (282 p) |
| ISBN: | 9781134795994 1134795998 9781409444428 1409444422 |