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This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated, and promoted new textiles, novel products, and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions successful.

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This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated, and promoted new textiles, novel products, and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions successful.
Autorenporträt
Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the History Department at King's College London. A specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern history and its material remains, she has published extensively on Italian and European consumption practices. She is the author of Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2005) which won the Wolfson Prize for History and, with Dr James Shaw, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence (Rodopi Press, 2011). Between 2009- and 2012, Professor Welch led the Humanities in the European Research Area project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800.