Barbara Karl
Biographic Data
| ID | 5647045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Karl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Karl |
| SIGNATURE | KARL B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Objects of Prestige and Spoils of War
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Embroidered Histories
Early modern India was an economic core region producing manifold textiles for export. During the sixteenth century a new customer entered the stage and expanded its influence from the city of Goa ? Portugal. From early times, the Portuguese had bought and commissioned textiles, among them large embroideries from Bengal and Gujarat, which are the focus of this study. By providing European prints as models for the professional local embroiderers t…
Silk and Propaganda — Two Ottoman Silk Flags and the Relief of Vienna, 1683
This article focuses on two Ottoman silk flags and discusses not only their original contexts of production but also traces their biographies until their reception as booty items and their further use after the Siege of Vienna in 1683. Banners and standards were symbolically charged signs used for military organisation. The higher the rank of a flag, the more coveted it was as booty. It was not so much their material value, which was in fact negl…
Marvellous things are made with needles
Journal Article 'Marvellous things are made with needles': Bengal colchas in European inventories, c. 1580–1630 Get access Barbara Karl Barbara Karl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 23, Issue 2, November 2011, Pages 301–313, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhq028 Published: 08 November 2010
“ Galanterie di cose rare… ”
Between 1584 and 1588, the Florentine merchant Filippo Sassetti sent a whole sequence of letters from India to his friends and the grand ducal court in Florence. He informed his correspondents about local Indian plants, animals, the mechanisms of commercial exchange and Indian social structures and politics. Apart from publishing and editing letters, the scholarship so far has focused on linguistic, geographic, medical and ethnographical issues r…
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“ Galanterie di cose rare… ”
Between 1584 and 1588, the Florentine merchant Filippo Sassetti sent a whole sequence of letters from India to his friends and the grand ducal court in Florence. He informed his correspondents about local Indian plants, animals, the mechanisms of commercial exchange and Indian social structures and politics. Apart from publishing and editing letters, the scholarship so far has focused on linguistic, geographic, medical and ethnographical issues r…
Marvellous things are made with needles
Journal Article 'Marvellous things are made with needles': Bengal colchas in European inventories, c. 1580–1630 Get access Barbara Karl Barbara Karl Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 23, Issue 2, November 2011, Pages 301–313, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhq028 Published: 08 November 2010
Silk and Propaganda — Two Ottoman Silk Flags and the Relief of Vienna, 1683
This article focuses on two Ottoman silk flags and discusses not only their original contexts of production but also traces their biographies until their reception as booty items and their further use after the Siege of Vienna in 1683. Banners and standards were symbolically charged signs used for military organisation. The higher the rank of a flag, the more coveted it was as booty. It was not so much their material value, which was in fact negl…
Embroidered Histories
Early modern India was an economic core region producing manifold textiles for export. During the sixteenth century a new customer entered the stage and expanded its influence from the city of Goa ? Portugal. From early times, the Portuguese had bought and commissioned textiles, among them large embroideries from Bengal and Gujarat, which are the focus of this study. By providing European prints as models for the professional local embroiderers t…
Objects of Prestige and Spoils of War
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