Burkhard Pöttler
Textiles in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Styria (Austria)
Číslo: 1/2023
Periodikum: Český lid
DOI: 10.21104/CL.2023.1.01
Klíčová slova: historical anthropology, European ethnology, material culture, probate inventories, textiles
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Anotace:
The focus of this paper lies on the inhabitants of the duchy of Styria, those from small towns, market towns and the capital Graz, as well as those from rural dominions. Special stress is laid on local merchants as distributors of fabrics and final products. Their probate inventories allow us to get at least some insights into the locally available products and they often are regarded as best source for the research in changes of consumer habits. Cotton and silk are important indicators of these changes.
The article is based on probate inventories covering mainly the period from about 1660 to about 1790 with some earlier as well as some later examples. The core of the research database comes from nearly 1,140 probate inventories from the monastery of Seckau, and about 110 from the city of Graz, another 234 from other Styrian towns, market towns, and dominions. Despite the relatively large number of sources, the contribution follows a historical-anthropological approach.
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The article is based on probate inventories covering mainly the period from about 1660 to about 1790 with some earlier as well as some later examples. The core of the research database comes from nearly 1,140 probate inventories from the monastery of Seckau, and about 110 from the city of Graz, another 234 from other Styrian towns, market towns, and dominions. Despite the relatively large number of sources, the contribution follows a historical-anthropological approach.