0. Prologue (Mikkel Venborg Pedersen)
1. The World of Foreign Goods and Imported Luxuries: Merchant and
shop inventories in late 17th-century Denmark-Norway (Camilla Luise
Dahl & Piia Lempiäinen)
2. Foreign Seductions: Sumptuary laws, consumption and national
identity in early modern Sweden (Eva I. Andersson)
3. Fashion from the Ship: Life, fashion and fashion dissemination
in and around Kokkola, Finland in the 18th century (Seija
Johnson)
4. Creating fashion: Tailors’ and seamstresses’ work with cutting
and construction techniques in women’s dress, ca. 1750-1830
(Pernilla Rasmussen)
5. Silk Knitted Waistcoats - a 17th-century fashion item (Maj
Ringgaard)
6. Fashioning the early modern Swedish nobility - mirrored in
preserved 17th-century liturgical textiles (Lena Dahrén)
7. Reflections on dress practices and how to get to know the past
(Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen)
8. The Queen of Denmark: An English fashion doll and its
connections to the Nordic countries (Cecilie Stöger Nachman)
9. At the Nordic Fringe of Global Consumption: A Copenhagen
bourgeois’ home and the use of new goods in the mid-18th century
(Mikkel Venborg Pedersen)
10. The Theft of Fashion: Circulation of fashionable textiles and
garments in 18th-century Copenhagen (Vibe Maria Martens)
11. Bolette-Marie Harboe’s bridal dress: fashionable encounters
told in an 18th-century dress (Kirsten Toftegaard)
12. Luxurious Textiles in Danish Christening Garments: fashionable
encounters across social and geographical borders (Tove Engelhardt
Mathiassen)
13. Fish-bones and Fashion – the influence of whaling on women’s
clothes in early modern Europe (Christina Folke Ax)
14. From Doll Cups to Woollen Sweaters: Trends, consumption, and
influentials in early 19th-century southern Disko Bay, Greenland
(Peter Andreas Toft & Maria Mackinney-Valentin)
15. Abundance to Asceticism: Religious influences on perceptions of
luxury in Denmark and Great Britain in the 18th century (Juliane
Engelhardt)
16. Circulating images of unmanliness and foreignness: Collector
Niclas Holterman and European caricatures in Sweden around 1800
(Patrik Steorn)
17. Acknowledgements
18. Illustrations
19. Contributors
Marie-Louise Nosch is Research Professor at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen and former Director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen. She has published widely on the cross-cultural study of textiles from across the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, and is editor of many titles in Oxbow Book’s Ancient Textiles series.
The authors come from a wide variety of disciplines, and the collection thus contains articles of interest to scholars in many different fields.--Laurel Ann Wilson ", Volume 62 Number 2 Summer 2016"
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