Textiles and the Medieval Economy

1. Introduction. Conference: ‘Textiles and Economy in the Middle Ages’, Copenhagen, 19–21 April, 2012 Carsten Jahnke 2. Textile Production, Organisation and Theoretical Perspectives on Trade in the Scandinavian Viking Age Eva Andersson Strand 3. Weaving Wealth: Cloth and Trade in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland Michèle Hayeur Smith 4. Technology and Textile Production from the Viking Age and the Middle Ages: Norwegian Cases Ingvild Øye 5. Brides, Donors, Traders: Imports into Anglo-Saxon England Gale R. Owen-Crocker 6. Silk Trade to Scandinavia in the Viking Age Marianne Vedeler 7. Luxury for Everyone? Embroideries on Leather Shoes and the Consumption of Silk Yarn in 11th–13th Century Northern Europe Gitte Hansen 8. The Flax and Linen of Medieval Novgorod Heidi M. Sherman 9. The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320–c. 1420 John Munro† 10. The Trade with Fustian from Germany to Denmark in the Late Middle Ages Kilian Baur 11. Cloth Production and Cloth Trade in Hanseatic Towns with Regional and Non-Regional Products Reflected in Normative and other Sources Rudolf Holbach 12. Cloth in the Large Cities of Medieval Poland: Production and Trade Jerzy Maik 13. Hanseatic Textile Production in 15th Century Long Distance Trade Angela Ling Huang iv Contents 14. Noble Customers of Cloth at the Frankfurt Fairs Around the Year 1500 Thomas Ertl and Michael Rothmann 15. The Missing Link: The Distribution Revolution of the 15th Century Stuart Jenks