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Author : Robert Sabatino Lopez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Silk industry
ISBN : OCLC:758294188
Author : Xinru Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Eurasia
ISBN : 9780195644524
This book deals with the silk trade in Eurasia between the seventh and twelfth centuries and explores how religious ideas and institutions affected economic behavior.
Author : Anna Muthesius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017547261
This volume gathers together and updates Anna Muthesius' articles, published over a 20 year period, on Byzantine and related silks.
Author : Anna Muthesius
Publisher : Pindar Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915837233
This volume complements Anna Muthesius' two earlier ground-breaking volumes in the field of silk as material culture: Studies in Byzantine and Islamic Silk Weaving and Studies in Silk in Byzantium. The publication highlights the fact that similar patterns of selection were at work in the acquisition of silks by secular and ecclesiastical bodies. These patterns of selection were governed not only by fashions of the time, but by access to international trade routes leading to the Great Silk Road linking the Near East to the Mediterranean. The surviving silks prove that Mediterranean/Near Eastern silk trade flourished continuously and for centuries prior to the thirteenth century, contrary to what has previously widely been assumed. It also highlights the crucial role of the Caucasian silk routes in accessing the Great Silk Road in the early period, and the contribution of Georgian (and Armenian) silk weaving after the thirteenth century. Above all, the book demonstrates how important it is to assess the impact of Near Eastern silk manufacture and distribution in relation to Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean silk production and trade.
Author : Berit Hildebrandt
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781785702822
"Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron, precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics and silk, a luxury item that was in great demand in the Roman Empire. These collected papers connect research from different areas and disciplines dealing with exchange along the Silk Roads. These historical, philological and archaeological contributions highlight silk as a commodity, gift and tribute, and as a status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. The main period concerns Rome and China in antiquity, ending in the late fifth century CE, with the Roman Empire being transformed into the Byzantine Empire, while the Chinese chronology covers the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms, ending in 420 CE. In addition, both earlier and later epochs are also considered in order to gather an understanding of developments and changes in long-distance and longer-term relations that involved silk."
Author : Alexander A. Vasiliev
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1958-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299809256
“This is the revised English translation from the original work in Russian of the history of the Great Byzantine Empire. It is the most complete and thorough work on this subject. From it we get a wonderful panorama of the events and developments of the struggles of early Christianity, both western and eastern, with all of its remains of the wonderful productions of art, architecture, and learning.”—Southwestern Journal of Theology
Author : Dagmar Schäfer,Luca Molà
Publisher : Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : 1783272937
Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world.
Author : Angeliki E. Laiou,Cécile Morrisson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139465755
This is a concise survey of the economy of the Byzantine Empire from the fourth century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Organised chronologically, the book addresses key themes such as demography, agriculture, manufacturing and the urban economy, trade, monetary developments, and the role of the state and ideology. It provides a comprehensive overview of the economy with an emphasis on the economic actions of the state and the productive role of the city and non-economic actors, such as landlords, artisans and money-changers. The final chapter compares the Byzantine economy with the economies of western Europe and concludes that the Byzantine economy was one of the most successful examples of a mixed economy in the pre-industrial world. This is the only concise general history of the Byzantine economy and will be essential reading for students of economic history, Byzantine history and medieval history more generally.
Author : Omkar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811033049
This book is a compilation of writings focused on conventional and unconventional insect products. Some of these products are commercials successes, while others are waiting to be launched and are the potential produce of the future. In addition to the well known products honey, mulberry silk, and lac, the book primarily concentrates on silk producing insects other than the mulberry silkworm, insects as food, as sources of medicines, pest and weed managers, and as pollinators. The book highlights the all pervasive role of insects in improving human lives at multiple levels. Accordingly, while most books on insects concentrate on how to limit growth in their population, it instead focuses on how to propagate them. In each chapter, the book brings to the fore how insects are far more beneficial to us than their well publicised harmful roles. This book approaches both unconventional and conventional insect products, such as honey, silk and lac in much more depth than the available literature. It investigates different aspects of the production of these insects, such as the related processes, problems and utilities, in dedicated chapters. Because this book deals with the production of insects or their produce, it has been named Industrial Entomology, perhaps the only book that truly reveals the tremendous potential of insects to help humans live better lives. Based on the research and working experience of the contributors, who are global experts in their respective fields, it provides authentic, authoritative and updated information on these topics. The book offers a unique guide for students, teachers, policy planners, small scale industrialists, and government ministries of agriculture and industry across the globe. It will provide a much required stimulus to insect appreciation and generate enthusiasm for research and the broader acceptance for insect produce. Hopefully, it will also present the Indian perspective on these topics to a global readership.
Author : John Onians
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781856693776
Combines a survey of world art with maps showing the associations and dissemination of culture across the globe.
Author : Susan Whitfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520957664
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.
Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 2812 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195105070
"While many dictionaries of economics are available for purchase, this title is unique because of its greater depth of treatment. It offers histories and backgrounds on a significant number of economic topics, not only for the United States but also for other countries and geographic regions. Entries cover such topics as economic concepts; markets and industries; economic development in various countries; biographical essays on key people in economics and business; business products, including coffee, gas, and oil; and the economic aspects of historical events and time periods, including the Great Depression."--"The Top 20 Reference Titles of the Year," American Libraries, May 2004.
Author : Luca Molà
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801876554
How 16th century Venetian silk manufacturers met the challenge of demand for lighter and cheaper fabric. The manufacture of luxury textiles, such as silk, was central to an Italian Renaissance economy based on status and conspicuous consumption. From the rapidly changing fashions that drove demand to the jobs created for craftsmen, weavers, and merchants, the wealth and prestige associated with silk throughout Europe made it Italy's leading export industry. In this important book, Luca Molà examines the silk industry in Renaissance Venice amid changing markets, suppliers, producers, and government regulations. Drawing on archival research and a vast amount of European scholarship, Molà documents the innovations Venetians made in manufacturing and marketing to spur the silk industry. He uncovers the alliance between manufacturers and government to promote the industry in a changing international economic environment. Through flexible laws, quality was regulated to meet the varying requirements of an increasing range of customers. Molà also analyzes state policy that favored the development and organization of silk producers throughout the Terraferma. His findings contribute in an important way to the ongoing scholarly assessment of Venice's place in the economy of the Renaissance and the Mediterranean world.
Author : Cecily J. Hilsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107033306
Questions how political decline refigures the visual culture of empire by examining the imperial image and the gift in later Byzantium (1261-1453). Provides a more nuanced account of medieval artistic cultural exchange that considers the temporal dimensions of power and the changing fates of empires.
Author : Ben Marsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108418287
Reveals how commodity failure, as much as success, can shed light on aspirations, environment, and economic life in colonial societies.
