The Republic of Skill
Artisan Mobility, Innovation, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Premodern Europe
Published on 11. August 2022
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-90-04-51324-2 (ISBN)
Description
Artisans travelled all over Europe in the pre-modern period, and they were responsible for many technical innovations and new consumer products. This volume moves away from the model of knowledge 'transfer' and, drawing on new understandings of artisan work, considers the links between artisan creativity and mobility. Through case studies of different industries, it emphasizes traditions of migration, the experience of moving, and the stimulus provided by new economic and work environments. For both male and female artisans, the weight of these factors varied from one trade to another, and from place to place.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3 farbige Abbildungen, 4 s/w Tabellen
1 Maps; 4 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
676 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51324-2 (9789004513242)
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David Garrioch is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. He has worked on many aspects of urban social history in early modern Europe. His works include The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and The Making of Revolutionary Paris (University of California Press, 2004; translated and published in French by La Decouverte, 2013).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
?Artisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial Europe
?David Garrioch
2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community Formation
?Artisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term Context
?Bert De Munck
3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern Europe
?Corine Maitte
4 Seducing Europe
?Swiss Sugar-bakers on the Move
?Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl
5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern Europe
?Nicoletta Rolla
6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Paris
?David Garrioch
7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century London
?Matthew Martin
8 The Eckhardt Family
?Inventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760-1820
?Karel Davids
9 A Difficult Matching
?Female Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmont
?Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
10 Made in France?
?British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion Trades
?Simon Macdonald
11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680-1820
?Jose Antolin Nieto Sanchez
12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century Europe
?Maarten Prak and Sander Karst
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
?Artisan Mobility and Innovation in Pre-industrial Europe
?David Garrioch
2 Shared Skills and Technologies of Community Formation
?Artisanal Epistemologies, Secrecy and Governmentality in Long-term Context
?Bert De Munck
3 Artisan Mobility and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Glass Industry in Early Modern Europe
?Corine Maitte
4 Seducing Europe
?Swiss Sugar-bakers on the Move
?Margrit Schulte Beerbuehl
5 Circulation of Artisans and Techniques in Construction Sites in Early Modern Europe
?Nicoletta Rolla
6 Foreign Furniture-makers and Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Paris
?David Garrioch
7 Making and Marketing Porcelain in Eighteenth-century London
?Matthew Martin
8 The Eckhardt Family
?Inventors on the Move in the Dutch Republic and England, c.1760-1820
?Karel Davids
9 A Difficult Matching
?Female Artisans, Technical Knowledge and Inventions in Early Modern Savoy-piedmont
?Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
10 Made in France?
?British Women Workers in the Eighteenth-century Paris Fashion Trades
?Simon Macdonald
11 Innovation, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in Madrid, 1680-1820
?Jose Antolin Nieto Sanchez
12 Painters on the Move in Seventeenth-century Europe
?Maarten Prak and Sander Karst
Index