Output details
30 - History
University of Chester
Article title
Paris, Arras et la cour: les tapissiers de Philippe le Hardi et Jean sans Peur, ducs de Bourgogne
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Revue du Nord
Article number
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Volume number
93
Issue number
389
First page of article
11
ISSN of journal
00352624
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Frequently overlooked in place of the tapestries they supplied, this article focuses on the tapissiers to the Burgundian court c.1363 - 1419. Based on Burgundian household accounts it analyses the urban careers of the tapissiers alongside the goods they supplied and demonstrates that they were individuals of ambition, who established and maintained their business reputations by supplying luxury textiles to the court and by tapping into an expanding consumer market. It argues that supplying tapestry to a court was part of a risky strategy designed to maintain and pursue social and professional ambitions in both town and court.
