368 pages | 6 x 9 | 28 illus.
Cloth 2016 | ISBN 9780812248487 | $75.00s | Outside the Americas £65.00
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A volume in the Middle Ages Series
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"Sharon Farmer explains why it is important to study the silk industries of medieval Paris, discussing arguments and ideas that are not only inspiring for aficionados of Parisian silk, but also for social and economic historians of the late Middle Ages."—HistoryFor more than one hundred years, from the last decade of the thirteenth century to the late fourteenth, Paris was the only western European town north of the Mediterranean basin to produce luxury silk cloth. What was the nature of the Parisian silk industry? How did it get there? And what do the answers to these questions tell us?"In The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris we have, for the first time, a coherent discussion of silk and accessories production that accounts for the unusual presence of female guilds in Paris. Sharon Farmer also reveals the basis of the appearance of luxury fabrics made in Paris in aristocratic and royal account books. This is an invaluable contribution to the history of women, gender, and medieval industry."—Kathryn Reyerson, University of Minnesota
Sharon Farmer is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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