The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris : : Artisanal Migration, Technological Innovation, and Gendered Experience / / Sharon Farmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Farmer, Sharon,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 28 illus.

For more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there? And what do the ans...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Note on Nomenclature and Money
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Paris, City of Immigrants
• Chapter 2. From Persian Cocoon to Soie de Paris: Trade Networks and Silk Techniques
• Chapter 3. Immigrant Mercers and Silk Workers
• Chapter 4. Gender, Work, and the Parisian Silk Industry
• Chapter 5. Jews, Foreign Lombards, and Parisian Silk Women
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Mediterranean Immigrants Paying Taxes as “Bourgeois of Paris” or Included on Parisian Guild Lists
• Appendix 2. Mercers in the Parisian Tax Assessments, Arranged by Neighborhood
• Appendix 3. Silk Weavers in the Parisian Tax Assessments
• Appendix 4. Silk Throwsters in the Parisian Tax Assessments
• Appendix 5. Ouvriers/Ouvrie`res de Soie in the Parisian Tax Assessments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments