Imported fabrics and their social reach in Valencia and its kingdom (14th‑15th centuries)

Through both fiscal and notarial records, this study focuses on the role played by imported fabrics in a great late-medieval city such as Valencia. It shows how most of the market was dominated by locally produced fabrics, which in some cases were born from the imitation of these imports. On the contrary, foreign woolen cloths, arrived almost exclusively from Flanders and England, constituted a smaller market to which not only the nobles aspired, but also a relatively large group of bourgeois who used to have a few imported garments for the most important occasions. It cannot be said, in this... Mehr ...