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 ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
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TELEMME - UMR 6570
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Schlagwörter: | tissus importés / marché aux draps / consommation / tissus / Valence médiévale / tissus flamands / imported cloths / cloth market / consumption / fabrics / medieval valencia / flemish fabrics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27089766 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://journals.openedition.org/rives/9259 |
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 case, that the international cloth trade is at the basis of the consumption habits of the local population, but rather that it was a very exclusive sector dominated by a few local merchants. Nevertheless, this exclusive sector of imported fabrics was much more important because of the imitation effect in the local textile production, which partly guided the evolution of this industry in Valencia. ; En utilisant à la fois des sources fiscales et notariales, cette étude se concentre sur le rôle joué par les tissus importés dans une grande ville de la fin du Moyen Âge comme Valence. Il montre comment la majeure partie du marché était dominée par des tissus produits localement, qui dans certains cas étaient nés de l’imitation de ces importations. Au contraire, les draps de laine étrangers, arrivés presque exclusivement de Flandre et d’Angleterre, constituaient un marché plus restreint auquel non seulement les nobles aspiraient, mais aussi un groupe relativement important de bourgeois qui avaient autrefois quelques vêtements importés pour certaines occasions. On ne peut pas dire, dans ce cas, que le commerce international du drap était à la base des habitudes de consommation de la population locale, mais plutôt qu’il s’agissait d’un secteur très exclusif dominé par quelques commerçants locaux. Néanmoins ce secteur exclusif des tissus importés était beaucoup plus important en raison de l’effet d’imitation dans la production ...