Produits de luxe et produits de consommation courante. L’importation de draps et de toiles d’Occident dans le royaume de Chypre (xiiie-xve siècles)

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ID21101976
AuthorsPhilippe Trélat (Centre d'études de l'emploi, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume49
Pages259-280
Publication date2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCahiers du Centre d Etudes Chypriotes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0761-8271 • E-ISSN: 2647-7300
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/cchyp.629
OpenAlexW4285774889
LanguageFR
References cited24

This paper would like to show how the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus should be considered as a major player in the linen and woolen cloth trade in the Mediterranean (13th15th centuries). The dynamism of the Catalan, Genoese and Venetian merchants was behind growth of trade and goods traffic. They exported the linen and woolen textiles from the main production centers in Western Europe to Cyprus : Champagne (Châlons-en-Champagne, Reims), Flanders (Wervicq and Kortrijk), Brabant (Mechelen and Leuven), northern Italy (Florence, Como, Milan), Languedoc (Narbonne, Limoux) and Catalonia (Barcelona, Valencia). A brief research in the Cypriot wardrobe testifies to the taste of the urban elites for the luxury fabrics. The cloth trade between western Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, categorized by the historiography as an unequal exchange, appears for the Cypriot case more like the result of the spreading of the western fashion

Art · Geography · Humanities · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Archaeological Studies

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