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 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 TapestriesPART 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 Centuries8 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
