Programme

 

30th April 2010
9.00-9.15 Professor Marc Boone, Medieval History, Ghent University. (Chair).
  Introduction
   

Morning Session 1: Production
     
9.15-9.45 Dr Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, University of Firenze
  'Florentine silk cloths towards the German markets at the end of the Middle Ages'.
     
9.45-10.15 Dr Luca Molà, lecturer of Early Modern History, University of Warwick.
  ‘From Lucca to Venice: the production of luxury textiles in 15th and 16th-century Italy’.

 
10.15-10.45 Tea/Coffee in Lower College Hall
   

Morning Session 2: Commercialisation
   
10.45-11.15 Dr Sophie Jolivet, University of Dijon and Bart Lambert, Ghent University.
  ‘The price of economic success: Italian financial interests and luxury trade in the Burgundian Netherlands (1420-1445)’.
   
11.15-11.45 Jeroen Puttevils, Antwerp University.
  ‘When Flemish and Italian interests meet: the Van der Molen and the silk Trade on Commission in sixteenth century Antwerp’.
   
11.45-13.00 Round Table discussion.
   
   

13.00-2.30pm Lunch: Lower College Hall.

   

Afternoon Session: Consumption.
Dr Graeme Small, Medieval History, Glasgow University. (Chair).
   

2.30-2.45pm

Patricia Collins, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Art, the Burrell Collection Glasgow.

  'Sir William Burrell's Tapestries'
   
2.45-3.15pm Professor Peter Stabel, Medieval History, Antwerp University.
  ‘A prince goes shopping. Luxuries, the duke and the city c. 1384-1477'.
   
3.15-3.45pm Dr Katherine Anne Wilson, St Andrews University.
  ‘Luxury textiles of Burgundian urban consumers''.
   
3.45-4.30pm Round Table Discussion.
   
4.30-5.00pm. Tea/Coffee in Lower College Hall
   
5.00-5.30pm Concluding Remarks - Dr Graeme Small, Glasgow University
   
5.30pm Reception: The Undercroft, Mediaeval History.