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The world in a book : the creation of the global in sixteenth-century European costume books

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Riello, Giorgio (2019) The world in a book : the creation of the global in sixteenth-century European costume books. Past & Present, 242 (Supplement 14). pp. 281-317. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtz047

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Abstract

Richard Hakluyt in his Principal Navigations advised would-be explorers in their mission to discover a north-eastern passage to China to carry with them two types of book. The first was an updated ‘new Herball and such books as make shew of Herbes, Plantes, Trees, Fishes, Foules, and Beastes of all Regions’. The second type of book to be used ‘to astonish the natives’ and as a reference guide to foreign lands was what Hakluyt called ‘the book of the attire of all nations’.1 Hakluyt referred to what today are commonly called costume books, collections of the costumes of different people in Europe and other parts of the world. By the time Hakluyt published the first edition of his travel narratives in 1589, at least a dozen such costume books had been published in France, Italy and Germany in the previous twenty-five years.2 In the following decade the genre of the costume book reached maturity with the publication of Cesare Vecellio’s two editions of his Habiti antichi et moderni, comprising more than four hundred plates each.3

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Clothing and dress in literature, Costume -- History -- 16th century, Costume -- Europe -- History -- 16th century, Costume -- Social aspects -- Europe, Europe -- Civilization -- 16th century, History, Modern
Journal or Publication Title: Past & Present
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0031-2746
Official Date: 21 November 2019
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DateEvent
21 November 2019Published
17 July 2019Accepted
Volume: 242
Number: Supplement 14
Page Range: pp. 281-317
DOI: 10.1093/pastj/gtz047
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Copyright Holders: The Past and Present Society
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UNSPECIFIEDLeverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
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