Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th-16th Centuries

by Angela Ling Huang (Editor), Carsten Jahnke (Editor)

Overview

Archaeologists and textile historians bring together 16 papers to investigate the production, trade and consumption of textiles in Scandinavia and across parts of northern and Mediterranean Europe throughout the medieval period. Archaeological evidence is used to demonstrate the existence or otherwise of international trade and to examine the physical characteristics of textiles and their distribution in order to understand who was producing, using and trading them and what they were being used for. Historical evidence, mainly textual, is employed to link textile names to places, numbers and prices and thus provide an appreciation of changing economics, patterns of distribution and the organisation of trade. Different types and qualities of cloths are discussed and the social implications of their production and import/export considered against a developing background of urbanism and increasing commercial wealth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789252095
Publisher:	Oxbow Books
Publication date:	09/04/2019
Series:	Ancient Textiles , #16
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. Conference: ‘Textiles and Economy in the Middle Ages’, Copenhagen, 19–21 April, 2012 Carsten Jahnke 2. Textile Production, Organisation and Theoretical Perspectives on Trade in the Scandinavian Viking Age Eva Andersson Strand 3. Weaving Wealth: Cloth and Trade in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland Michèle Hayeur Smith 4. Technology and Textile Production from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages: Norwegian Cases Ingvild Øye 5. Brides, Donors, Traders: Imports into Anglo-Saxon England Gale R. Owen-Crocker 6. Silk Trade to Scandinavia in the Viking Age Marianne Vedeler 7. Luxury for Everyone? Embroideries on Leather Shoes and the Consumption of Silk Yarn in 11th–13th Century Northern Europe Gitte Hansen 8. The Flax and Linen of Medieval Novgorod Heidi M. Sherman 9. The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320–c. 1420 John Munro† 10. The Trade with Fustian from Germany to Denmark in the Late Middle Ages Kilian Baur 11. Cloth Production and Cloth Trade in Hanseatic Towns with Regional and Non-Regional Products Reflected in Normative and other Sources Rudolf Holbach 12. Cloth in the Large Cities of Medieval Poland: Production and Trade Jerzy Maik 13. Hanseatic Textile Production in 15th Century Long Distance Trade Angela Ling Huang iv Contents 14. Noble Customers of Cloth at the Frankfurt Fairs Around the Year 1500 Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann 15. The Missing Link: The Distribution Revolution of the 15th Century Stuart Jenks