Artesanos ante la justicia. La organización de la industria textil medieval a través de la documentación judicial: el ejemplo contestano (1470-1492)
This article studies the judicial documentation (from institution Cort de Justícia) with the aim of knowing the organization of textile production during the Later Middle Ages. In Cocentaina, small town of the Comtat region in southern Valencia, there was a woolen specialization, during 15th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Sevilla
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Historia. Instituciones. Documentos |
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| Online Access: | http://institucional.us.es/revistas/historia/40/art_4.pdf |
| Summary: | This article studies the judicial documentation (from institution Cort de Justícia) with the aim of knowing the organization of textile production during the Later Middle Ages. In Cocentaina, small town of the Comtat region in southern Valencia, there was a woolen specialization, during 15th century. In this town, the judge papers –all the series of documents of the judge– provide profuse information about textile manufacture: in these documents we can see trading of wool, dyes and cloth; also we can see orders of textile works (weaving, shearing, dyeing); and we can see companies to manufacture and trade cloth between the artisans and local drapers. So we can study directly the artisans, their enterprises, their businesses, their investments, and their organization of the workshops. And finally we can see the role of enterprising artisans controling the purchase of raw
materials, the infrastructure management and the sale of woolen cloth in regional markets. |
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| ISSN: | 0210-7716 2253-8291 |