The Power of Textiles. Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (1363-1477)
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28-11/620674
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1484/M.BURG-EB.5.105859
- Publisher
- Brepols
- ISBN
- 9782503533933
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Starting out as an AHRC doctoral project, this evolved through 10 years of research. It is the first documentary study of the production, manufacture, and use of textiles. It focuses on the Burgundian Netherlands, the wealthiest polity of the later middle ages. It utilises hundreds of neglected original Middle French archival sources from Dijon accounts, inventories, contracts of exchange. It takes a novel, object-centred approach, revealing how the characteristics of tapestry shaped economic strategies, social relations, and political power. It has significance for the historiography of the Burgundian Netherlands, the history of late medieval society, and histories of material culture.
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- Non-English
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