Inventories of textiles - textiles in inventories : : studies on late medieval and early modern material culture /

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

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...

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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
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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.

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