Europe's rich fabric : the consumption, commercialisation, and production of luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / edited by Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson.

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Book
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English
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Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate, [2016]
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 24, 2015).
ISBN
  • 1134795998
  • 1409444430 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781134795994
  • 9781409444435 ((electronic bk.))
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929624040
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