Inventories of textiles - textiles in inventories : : studies on late medieval and early modern material culture / / Thomas Ertl, Barbara Karl (eds.).

• Superior document: V & R academic
• TeilnehmendeR: Ertl, Thomas,; Karl, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : V & R unipress,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: V & R academic.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages) :; illustrations

Inventories are among the oldest documents to survive from ancient times. Textiles take an important place within them and inform - among other things - about value, context of use, material, fashion, trade or techniques. This is all the more relevant, as textiles were then the most important trade goods after bullion and food. The articles of this volume focus on the time between the High Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. They represent different approaches to this fascinating topic whose social framework includes popes, kings, merchants and farmers.

Table of Contents

Introduction : inventories of textiles/textiles in inventories / Thomas Ertl and Barbara Karl -- Inventories and textiles of the Papal treasury around the year 1300 : concepts of Papal representation in written and material media / Christiane Elster -- The Bishop of Freising visits his estates (1316-1320) : Conrad III. Sendlinger and his inventories / Thomas Ertl -- Revisiting the inventories of Artois : fashion, status, and taste at the Court of Mahaut, c. 1307-1310 / Sarah-Grace Heller -- Reading English royal inventories : furnishings and clothing in the inventory of King Henry V (r. 1413-1422) / Lisa Monnas -- A purchase list from the Court of Charles the Bold from 1473 / Annemarie Stauffer -- Household goods in the 1492 inventory of the Estate of Lorenzo de'Medici / Richard Stapleford -- The empire of fabrics : the range of fabrics in the gift traffic of the Ottomans / Hedda Reindl-Kiel -- Half-tints in Italy in 1628 : an unusual book of samples from the Milan State Archives / Chiara Buss -- Clothing and clothes in Styrian probate inventories of the late 17th and 18th centuries / Burkhard Pöttler -- Fictive descriptions? : words, textiles, and inventories in early modern Switzerland / John Jordan and Gabi Schopf -- Index of names -- Index of places.