Article ID: CBB001422229

Medieval Paris and the Mediterranean: The Evidence from the Silk Industry (2014)

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By the last decades of the thirteenth century Paris had a luxury silk cloth industry. Because the demands of weaving silk were considerably different from those of working with wool and linen, the introduction of silk weaving was usually accompanied by the immigration of silk weavers and entrepreneurs. Sources suggest that such immigrants did indeed make a contribution to the nascent silk industry of Paris: the mercers of Paris, who managed silk production, included men with roots in nearly every silk-producing region around the Mediterranean, and several silk workers were from Venice and Cyprus. The presence of these immigrants suggests that we need to rethink the composition of the population of Paris at this time and to take into consideration the ways in which contacts with the Mediterranean transformed the material culture of northern France toward the end of the age of crusades.

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Authors & Contributors
Sicken, Anne
Pes, Giuseppina
Tumėnas, Vytautas
Otsuka, Keijiro
Pes, Assuntina
Hashino, Tomoko
Concepts
Textiles
Silk and silk industry
Weaving
Aristotelianism
Textile industry
Philosophy
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
14th century
Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
20th century, early
Jin Dynasty (China, 265-420)
Places
Paris (France)
England
China
Venice (Italy)
Cyprus
Levant and Near East
Institutions
Université de Paris
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