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Fabric of the City. A Social History of Cloth Manufacture in Medieval Ypres
, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 278 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 10 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600512.
Summary Textile industries were one of the driving forces of the urbanisation process in medieval Northwest Europe, and nowhere was their impact so profound as in Flanders, where almost all larger and smaller cities were involved in manufacturing woollens from the 12th to the 16th century. Ypres, the third city in the county, was perhaps the most important concentration of industrial labour and capital in this period. In their heyday in the 13th and 14th centuries Ypres woollens were exported all over Europe and Ypres entrepreneurs and textile workers were able to adapt in very flexible ways to changes in demand. This book investigates not only what the impact of cloth manufacture was on urban society, it also tries to unravel the social mechanisms of industrial development in late medieval cities. It focuses on social inequalities and on the often difficult relationship between the various stakeholders in the urban cloth industry: merchants, entrepreneurs, guild masters and skilled and unskilled workers. Through the analysis work practices, wage levels, investment strategies, gender issues and political aspirations, it unravels how urban industries in the pre-industrial era shaped social relations in the city, how they moulded the urban fabric. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Money Matters Introduction. Growth and Decline of a Textile City Chapter 1. Flemish Resilience? Cloth and its Markets Chapter 2. Of Weaving Looms, Spinning Wheels and Fuller's Troughs. Cloth and Technology Chapter 3. The Rise and Fall of Industrial Suburbia. Cloth and the Urban Fabric Chapter 4. The Boinebrokes of Ypres. Cloth and Mercantile Capital Chapter 5. The Clothiers' Century. Cloth and Entrepreneurship Chapter 6. The Rules of the Game. Cloth, Labour and Guilds Chapter 7. All in a Wage? Cloth and its Rewards Chapter 8. 'Whether He or She'. Cloth and Gender Chapter 9. A Time to Protest. Cloth and Revolt Chapter 10. Roads of Capitalism Bibliography Glossary of textile terms (in the Ypres sources)
Golden Times Wealth and status in the Middle Ages in the southern Low Countries
, Lannoo, 2016 Gebonden, Hardcover with dusjacket, compleet. 556 pagina's, 27cm x 32cm, met prachtige illustraties. text in English ISBN 9789401429214.
The Middle Ages are still considered a dark, backward period in history, but it is in that era that we find the roots of our society today, of democracy, of capitalism. In many respects, the Middle Ages in the southern Low Countries were more modern than the widely acclaimed Renaissance. In this book, young researchers sweep you off on a journey through these fascinating 'golden times' of dynamic cities, independent women, international networks of trade and commerce, organized workers and world-class artists. The economic history of the Middle Ages is described from the innovative perspective of various groups in society and illustrated with countless artworks that have never been displayed before.
De kleine stad in Vlaanderen. Bevolkingsdynamiek en economische functies van de kleine en secundaire stedelijke centra in het Gentse kwartier (14de - 16de eeuw)
Brussel, Paleis der Academiën 1995 320pp.+ enkele micro-fiches in bijlage, 26cm., in de reeks "Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der Letteren" Jg.57 (1995) nr.156, goede staat, B78919
"De geschiedenis van Eeklo; zevenhonderdvijftig jaar Eeklo."
Eeklo (Belgïe), uitgeverij Taptoe, 1990. 25 x 31, 700 pp./blz., reliure pleine toile + rhodoïd/hardcover , très bon état.
