JUNE 2012
245 x 180 mm, 500 pages, 200 illustrations, hardback
PRICE: £50.00
ISBN: 978 1 907372 23 0
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The modes of dress adopted at the Spanish court were highly influential elsewhere in Europe from about the mid sixteenth to the mid secenteenth century - the period corresponding to the Spanish political hegemony. The nature and prevalence of the diffusion of Spanish fashion is, however,a phenomenon that has never been systematically studied, partly because it is no easy task to pool the numerous of information, both archival (in many languages) and visual.
This book makes a most important contribution to this fundamental aspect of European history. Some thirty experts in thie field – or rather fields– from many different countries of origin have cooperated to survey Spanish fashion at home and the appetite for it in the rest of Europe, reflecting the various political relationships in which other countries stood to Spain. It will constitute an immensely valuable resource not least because it so richly illustrated, above all with portraits of the period.
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