New Book

I cannot help but get a little excited when I see a really interesting book is due to come out.  Textiles and the Medieval Economy: Production, Trade, and Consumption of Textiles, 8th–16th Centuries is due out next month and it looks like it will be a must have for me! 

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/textiles-and-the-medieval-economy.html

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Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Conference: ‘Textiles and economy in the Middle Ages’. Copenhagen, 19–21 April, 2012.  John Styles

• The missing link. The distribution revolution of the 15th century. Stuart Jenks
• Hanseatic textile production in 15th century long distance trade.  Angela Ling Huang
• Textile production, organisation, and theoretical perspectives on trade in the Scandinavian Viking Age.  Eva Andersson Strand
• Silk trade to Scandinavia in the Viking Age.  Marianne Vedeler
• Weaving wealth: cloth and trade in Viking Age and medieval Iceland.  Michèle Hayeur Smith
• The dual crises of the late-medieval Florentine cloth industry, c. 1320–c. 1420.  John Munro
• Trade with Fustian. Kilian Baur
• The flax and linen of medieval Novgorod. Heidi M. Sherman
• Technology and textile production – from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages – Norwegian cases. Ingvild Øye
• Cloth production and cloth trade in Hanseatic towns with regional and non-regional products reflected in normative and other sources.  Rudolf Holbach
• Cloth in the large cities of medieval Poland – production and trade.  Jerzy Maik
• Luxury for everyone? Embroideries on leather shoes and the consumption of silk yarn in 11th–13th century northern Europe. Gitte Hansen
• Brides, donors, traders: imports into Anglo-Saxon England. Gale R. Owen-Crocker
• Noble customers of cloth at the Frankfurt fairs around the year 1500. Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann
• Shopping in the early modern North. Shops, shopkeepers and their customers in 16th century Malmoe and Elsinore. Camilla Luise Dahl