The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and s

Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technolo

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and p

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet t

From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in th