Paula Hohti
Biographic Data
| ID | 6336031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Hohti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Hohti |
| SIGNATURE | HOHTI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7160-5259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remaking Dress History
In this Textile History Special Issue, which focuses on fashionable textiles and dress that span from everyday clothing to costly garments c. 1550–1650, we propose an innovative account of how different approaches of ‘re-methods’ offer scholars new ways to research and share findings about the making, wearing, meaning and historical importance of textiles and clothing. As the first focused journal issue to show a breadth of different reconstructi…
Knitting History Through Reconstruction
Knitted stockings were one of the most important early modern textile innovations. Especially fine stockings made of silk were a popular fashion product and one of the key novelties among European elites. The popularity of knitted stockings is seen in the fact that by the end of the fifteenth century, there were thousands of professional knitters in Europe. Despite the prominence of knitted stockings in this period, there is little surviving docu…
Domestic space and identity
Historians of early modern Italy have traditionally viewed the city's public spaces, such as streets, quarters, taverns and marketplaces, as the chief locations in which claims to identity were launched into the broader urban community. Recent studies on the domestic interior, however, have shown that the distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century urban space was much more complex. In this period, private u…
Conspicuous’ consumption and popular consumers
This essay explores the ways in which the middling classes of Sienese artisans and shopkeepers experienced Renaissance culture. Drawing on a range of archival documents, it examines what attitudes were expressed by people of a lower social rank towards wealth, luxury, ‘conspicuous’ consumption, and social emulation; how well informed ordinary Italians were of the cultural codes and practices that were cultivated among the Italian Renaissance elit…
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
Renaissance Siena
Conspicuous’ consumption and popular consumers
This essay explores the ways in which the middling classes of Sienese artisans and shopkeepers experienced Renaissance culture. Drawing on a range of archival documents, it examines what attitudes were expressed by people of a lower social rank towards wealth, luxury, ‘conspicuous’ consumption, and social emulation; how well informed ordinary Italians were of the cultural codes and practices that were cultivated among the Italian Renaissance elit…
Domestic space and identity
Historians of early modern Italy have traditionally viewed the city's public spaces, such as streets, quarters, taverns and marketplaces, as the chief locations in which claims to identity were launched into the broader urban community. Recent studies on the domestic interior, however, have shown that the distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century urban space was much more complex. In this period, private u…
Renaissance Siena
Artisans of the Body in Early Modern Italy
Domestic space and identity
Historians of early modern Italy have traditionally viewed the city's public spaces, such as streets, quarters, taverns and marketplaces, as the chief locations in which claims to identity were launched into the broader urban community. Recent studies on the domestic interior, however, have shown that the distinction between ‘public’ and ‘private’ in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century urban space was much more complex. In this period, private u…
Conspicuous’ consumption and popular consumers
This essay explores the ways in which the middling classes of Sienese artisans and shopkeepers experienced Renaissance culture. Drawing on a range of archival documents, it examines what attitudes were expressed by people of a lower social rank towards wealth, luxury, ‘conspicuous’ consumption, and social emulation; how well informed ordinary Italians were of the cultural codes and practices that were cultivated among the Italian Renaissance elit…
Remaking Dress History
In this Textile History Special Issue, which focuses on fashionable textiles and dress that span from everyday clothing to costly garments c. 1550–1650, we propose an innovative account of how different approaches of ‘re-methods’ offer scholars new ways to research and share findings about the making, wearing, meaning and historical importance of textiles and clothing. As the first focused journal issue to show a breadth of different reconstructi…
Knitting History Through Reconstruction
Knitted stockings were one of the most important early modern textile innovations. Especially fine stockings made of silk were a popular fashion product and one of the key novelties among European elites. The popularity of knitted stockings is seen in the fact that by the end of the fifteenth century, there were thousands of professional knitters in Europe. Despite the prominence of knitted stockings in this period, there is little surviving docu…
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Library science (2 works)