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Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker
of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this
collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught
with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption,
commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and
the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period,
this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and
subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the
past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes
the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the
commercialisation of rich fabrics by an international network of
traders, before arriving at the workshop to explore the Italian and
Burgundian world of production of damasks, silks and tapestries.
The first part of the volume deals with the consumption of luxury
textiles, through an investigation of courtly purchases, as well as
urban and clerical markets, before the chapters in part two move on
to explore the commercialisation of luxury textiles by merchants
who facilitated their trade from the cities of Lucca, Florence and
Venice. The third part then focusses upon manufacture, encouraging
consideration of the concept of luxury during this period through
the Italian silk industry and the production of high-quality
woollens in the Low Countries. Graeme Small draws the various
themes of the volume together in a conclusion that suggests
profitable future avenues of research into this important subject.
This book provides a vivid and accessible history of
first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.
Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming
from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the
kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking
work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and
professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified
and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political
agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon
and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their
descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those
interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy,
attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and
Britishness. -- .
Essays demonstrating the importance and inflence of Italian culture
on medieval Britain. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth
centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and
cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster
productive and far-reaching connections and cultural
interactionsbetween Britain and Italy; equally, the flourishing of
Italian humanism from the late fourteenth century onwards had a
major impact on intellectual life in Britain. The aim of this book
is to illustrate the continuity andthe variety of these exchanges
during the period. Each chapter focuses on a specific area (book
collection, historiography, banking, commerce, literary
production), highlighting the significance of the productive
interchange ofpeople and ideas across diverse cultural communities;
it is the lived experience of individuals, substantiated by written
evidence, that shapes the book's collective understanding of how
two European cultures interacted with eachother so fruitfully.
MICHELE CAMPOPIANO is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature
at the University of York; HELEN FULTON is Professor of Medieval
Literature at the University of Bristol. Contributors: Helen
Bradley, Margaret Bridges, Michele Campopiano, Carolyn Collette,
Victoria Flood, Helen Fulton, Bart Lambert, Ignazio del Punta
During the second half of the fourteenth and the first half of the
fifteenth century, it was particularly hazardous for medieval
merchants to invest in government finance. The 'certainty of
uncertainty' involved in dealing with princes proved disastrous for
innumerable businesses, whether they were modest one-man firms or
colossal 'super companies'. Yet, in this same period, the Rapondi,
a family active in Bruges but originating from the Italian city of
Lucca, achieved a career of more than thirty years in the
money-lending business, ending with encomiums of princely praise
instead of a bankruptcy. This book explains this remarkable
achievement, not with a conventional focus on the individuals who
agreed the loans and made up the bills, but by linking their work
to the phenomenon that dominated the social and political scene of
the Low Countries at the time: the formation of the Burgundian
state. In the context of the politics of centralization conducted
by the Burgundian dukes and the resistance of the Flemish cities
the success story of the Rapondi can be understood. The Duke, the
City and their Banker analyses how the firm first engaged in this
interaction, how it was able to maintain its position while others
failed and how these relations came to an end. While the emphasis
of the book lies on the Rapondis' activities in Bruges, the
meeting-place of international trade and finance in the fourteenth
and fifteenth century, it also offers new insights into other
important episodes of this fascinating period, including the Great
Western Schism that divided the papacy, the continuing hostilities
between England and France and the internal French conflict between
Bourguignons and Armagnacs. In doing so, The Duke, the City and
their Banker shows how an Italian merchant family was able to shape
late medieval economic and political history. The master's thesis
on which this book is based was awarded with the Dexia Prize for
History 2005 Bart Lambert is a Research Assistant of the Research
Foundation-Flanders, working at the University of Ghent. His
research interests focus on the economicand financial history of
the late medieval period.
This book provides a vivid and accessible history of
first-generation immigrants to England in the later Middle Ages.
Accounting for upwards of two percent of the population and coming
from all parts of Europe and beyond, immigrants spread out over the
kingdom, settling in the countryside as well as in towns, taking
work as agricultural labourers, skilled craftspeople and
professionals. Often encouraged and welcomed, sometimes vilified
and victimised, immigrants were always on the social and political
agenda. Immigrant England is the first book to address a phenomenon
and issue of vital concern to English people at the time, to their
descendants living in the United Kingdom today and to all those
interested in the historical dimensions of immigration policy,
attitudes to ethnicity and race and concepts of Englishness and
Britishness. -- .
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker
of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this
collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught
with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption,
commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and
the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period,
this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and
subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the
past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes
the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the
commercialisation of rich fabrics by an international network of
traders, before arriving at the workshop to explore the Italian and
Burgundian world of production of damasks, silks and tapestries.
The first part of the volume deals with the consumption of luxury
textiles, through an investigation of courtly purchases, as well as
urban and clerical markets, before the chapters in part two move on
to explore the commercialisation of luxury textiles by merchants
who facilitated their trade from the cities of Lucca, Florence and
Venice. The third part then focusses upon manufacture, encouraging
consideration of the concept of luxury during this period through
the Italian silk industry and the production of high-quality
woollens in the Low Countries. Graeme Small draws the various
themes of the volume together in a conclusion that suggests
profitable future avenues of research into this important subject.
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