Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600

Name: Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600
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ISBN: 9780521089609

ISBN-10: 0521089603

ISBN-13: 9780521089609

Edition: 2008

Authors: Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui

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This 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…

Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/6/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface


Lost of abbreviations


Map


Introduction



The role of cotton in the Mediterranean economy



Cotton cultivation in the ancient and medieval world



The Mediterranean cotton trade 1100-1600



The organisation of the North-Italian industry



The spread of cotton manufacture



Technological innovation



The structure of demand: products and markets



Guild and entrepreneurial structures



The growth of cotton manufacture north of the Alps



Italy and south Germany 1300-1600



European cotton manufacture on the eve of the industrial Revolution


Appendices


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index