Medieval Cotton - Trade and Industry

Опубликовано: 10 Август 2026
на канале: Popula Urbanum
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This episode we discuss the origins and history of the medieval cotton trade as well as the cotton industry.

Cotton which is still one of the most utilized textiles today was one of the most traded commodities in medieval Europe. We discuss where it was traded, who grew cotton and some of it's uses.

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Links and Sources

Cotton links
The Production, History, Uses and Relationships of Cotton (Gossypium spp.) in Ethiopia
G. Edward Nicholson

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4252135?...

Japanese Civilization (Part 19)
The Spread of Cotton Westward
By Kawakatsu Heita

https://www.jef.or.jp/journal/pdf/spe...

The Cotton Industry of Northern Italy in the Late Middle Ages: 1150-1450
Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117188?...

The North Italian Cotton Industry 1200-1800
Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui*

https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-Histor...

From Upper Italy to Swabia
A fourteenth-century case of geographical shifts in production and the structural evolution of an economic sector
translated by Sarah Swift and Ellen Yutzy Glebe

https://www.bavarian-studies.org/2020...

The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100–1600 - Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui - ISBN 9780511897009

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