Textiles and the medieval economy : production, trade and consumption of textiles 8th-16th centuries
2015, First Edition. Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards, showing faint shelfwear only. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Item #476803
Series; Ancient textiles series ; vol. 16. Physical description; iv, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Notes; "In memoriam John Munro (1938-2013)." Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Introduction: Conference: "Textiles and economy in the Middle Ages," Copenhagen, 19-21 April 2012 / Carsten Jahnke – Textile production, organisation and theoretical perspectives on trade in the Scandinavian Viking age / Eva Andersson Strand – Weaving wealth : cloth and trade in Viking age and medieval Iceland / Michèle Hayeur Smith – Technology and textile production from the Viking age and the Middle Ages : Norwegian cases / Ingvild Øye – Brides, donors, traders : imports into Anglo-Saxon England / Gale R. Owen-Crocker – Silk trade to Scandinavia in the Viking age / Marianne Vedeler – Luxury for everyone? Embroideries on leather shoes and the consumption of silk yarn in 11th-13th century Northern Europe / Gitte Hansen – The flax and linen of medieval Novgorod / Heidi M. Sherman – The dual crises of the late medieval Florentine cloth industry, c. 1320-c. 1420 / John Munro – The trade with Fustian from Germany to Denmark in the late Middle Ages / Kilian Baur – Cloth production and cloth trade in Hanseatic towns with regional and non-regional products reflected in normative and other sources / Rudolf Holbach – Cloth in the large cities of medieval Poland : production and trade / Jerzy Maik – Hanseatic textile production in 15th century long distance trade / Angela Ling Huang – Noble customers of cloth at the Frankfurt fairs around the year 1500 / Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann – The missing link : the distribution revolution of the 15th century / Stuart Jenks. Subjects; Textile fabrics, Medieval – History – Congresses. Consumption (Economics) – Europe – History – To 1500. Social archaeology.
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