{"product_id":"the-silk-industries-of-medieval-paris-9780812248487","title":"The Silk Industries of Medieval Paris","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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?\u003cbr\u003eAccording to Sharon Farmer, the key to the manufacture of silk lies not just with the availability and importation of raw materials but with the importation of labor as well. Farmer demonstrates the essential role that skilled Mediterranean immigrants played in the formation of Paris''s population and in its emergence as a major center of luxury production. She highlights the unique opportunities that silk production offered to women and the rise of women entrepreneurs in Paris to the very pinnacles of their profession. \u003ci\u003eThe Silk Industries of Medieval Paris\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates aspects of intercultural and interreligious interactions that took place in \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This splendid book is a model of history and technical writing. Its author, a highly respected historian and scholar of textile technologies, seeks to verify the long-surmised existence of a silk industry in medieval Paris . . . This book is a masterpiece of historical research and accessible information. It should be read by the medievalist, textile technologist, and museum curator alike.\" * \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" * \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Silk Industries of Medieval Paris\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on Nomenclature\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Paris, City of Immigrants\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. From Persian Cocoon to \u003ci\u003eSoie de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e: Trade Networks and Silk Techniques\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Immigrant Mercers and Silk Workers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Gender, Work, and the Parisian Silk Industry\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Jews, Foreign Lombards, and Parisian Silk Women\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendices:\u003cbr\u003e 1. Mediterranean Immigrants Paying Taxes as \"Bourgeois of Paris\" or Included on Parisian Guild Lists\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mercers in the Parisian Tax Assessments, Arranged by Neighborhood\u003cbr\u003e 3. Silk Weavers in the Parisian Tax Assessments\u003cbr\u003e 4. Silk Throwsters in the Parisian Tax Assessments\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003eOuvriers\/Ouvrières de Soie\u003c\/i\u003e in the Parisian Tax Assessments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405728457047,"sku":"9780812248487","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248487.jpg?v=1730493419","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-silk-industries-of-medieval-paris-9780812248487","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}