The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600This book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth, was the earliest large-scale cotton industry in western Europe. It thus marked a pivotal stage in the transmission of the knowledge and use of this textile fibre from the Mediterranean basin to northern Europe. The success of the Italians in creating new markets for a wide variety of products that included pure cotton, as well as mixed fabrics combining cotton with linen, hemp, wool and silk, permanently altered the patterns of taste and consumption in European society. Cotton, in various stages of proceeding, was at the heart of a complex network of communications that linked the north Italian towns to the source of raw materials and to international markets for finished goods. In the developing urban economy of northern Italy, cotton played a role comparable in magnitude to that of wool and shared with the latter certain basic features of early capitalistic organization. |
Contents
Cotton cultivation in the ancient and medieval world | 7 |
The Mediterranean cotton trade 11001600 | 28 |
The spread of cotton manufacture | 59 |
Technological innovation | 73 |
products and markets | 87 |
Guild and entrepreneurial structures | 105 |
Italy and south Germany 13001600 | 131 |
European cotton manufacture on the eve of | 154 |
Preface page vii | 1 |
194954 34 | 54 |
195560 60 | 60 |
196079 84 | 84 |
Elements of the late style 107 | 107 |
Notes on the late works 133 | 133 |
Catalog of works 195 | 195 |
Discography 213 | 213 |
Costs of production for cotton yarn and cloth in Milan | 163 |
The products of the Italian cotton industry | 166 |
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Notes 238 | 238 |
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Other editions - View all
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui No preview available - 2008 |
The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui No preview available - 1981 |
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