The republic of skill : : artisan mobility, innovation, and the circulation of knowledge in premodern Europe / / edited by David Garrioch.

• Superior document: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Garrioch, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy ; 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 pages)

Mobile artisans, male and female, were responsible for many innovations and new consumer products. This book asks why, and shows the importance of collective traditions of migration, of the experience of mobility, and of the encounter with new places.

Artisans travelled all over Europe in the pre-modern period, and they were responsible for many technical innovations and new consumer products. This volume moves away from the model of knowledge ‘transfer’ and, drawing on new understandings of artisan work, considers the links between artisan creativity and mobility. Through case studies of different industries, it emphasizes traditions of migration, the experience of moving, and the stimulus provided by new economic and work environments. For both male and female artisans, the weight of these factors varied from one trade to another, and from place to place.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Artisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial Europe -- David Garrioch -- 2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community Formation -- Artisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term Context -- Bert De Munck -- 3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern Europe -- Corine Maitte -- 4 Seducing Europe -- Swiss Sugar-bakers on the Move -- Margrit Schulte Beerbühl -- 5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern Europe -- Nicoletta Rolla -- 6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Paris -- David Garrioch -- 7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century London -- Matthew Martin -- 8 The Eckhardt Family -- Inventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760–1820 -- Karel Davids -- 9 A Difficult Matching -- Female Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmont -- Beatrice Zucca Micheletto -- 10 Made in France? -- British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion Trades -- Simon Macdonald -- 11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680–1820 -- José Antolín Nieto Sánchez -- 12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century Europe -- Maarten Prak and Sander Karst -- Index.