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Title(s):
Refashioning the Renaissance : everyday dress in Europe, 1500-1650 / edited by Paula Hohti.
Published/Created:
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025.
©2025
Physical Description:
xxiv, 345 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
GT720 .R44 2025 (LC)
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-338) and index.
Subject Terms:
Clothing and dress -- Europe -- 16th century.
Clothing and dress -- Europe -- 17th century.
Fashion -- Europe -- 16th century.
Fashion -- Europe -- 17th century.
Contributors:
Hohti, Paula, 1968– editor.
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  • Introduction: Refashioning the Renaissance / Paula Hohti
  • Part I: Innovation and imitation
  • Chapter 1: Transformations in textiles, 1400-1760 / John Styles
  • Chapter 2: Ribbon culture in early modern Italy / Andrea Caracausi
  • Chapter 3: Imitation in early modern artisan fashion / Sophie Pitman
  • Experiment in focus I: Imitation of fur / Sophie Pitman
  • Experiment in focus II: Knitted stockings / Piia Lempĩinen and Paula Hohti
  • Experiment in focus III: Stamped mock-velvet doublet / Sophie Pitman
  • Part II: Adornment and display
  • Chapter 4: Ň vera ň falsa: Non-elite ownership of pearls in early modern Italy / Michele Nicole Robinson
  • Chapter 5: Adorning the everyday: Male artisan jewellery in early modern England / Natasha Awais-Dean
  • Chapter 6: Dressed to kill: Arms, armour and protective attire in Renaissance men's middle- and lower-class dress / Victoria Bartels
  • Experiment in focus IV: Embodied experience of a tailor-made doublet / Valerio Zanetti
  • Experiment in focus V: Digital doublet / Maarit Kalmakurki
  • Experiment in focus VI: Imitation of amber and pearls / Michele Nicole Robinson
  • Part III: Status and credibility
  • Chapter 7: The dissemination of fashion: Consumption habits and non-essential textile goods in early modern Italian artisan inventories / Stefania Montemezzo
  • Chapter 8: Artisan attire and the politics of dress in seventeenth-century Tallinn / Astrid Wendel-Hansen
  • Chapter 9: The clothing of the contadina: Women's work, leisure and morality, 1550-1650 / Elizabeth Currie and Jordan Mitchell-King
  • Chapter 10: Practical, professional and prosperous: Dressing the artisans and small shopkeepers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark / Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
  • Experiment in focus VII: Caring for clothes / Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
  • Experiment in focus VIII: Colour / Paula Hohti
  • Experiment in focus IX: Lace / Elena Kanagy-Loux.