Chapter 3. Immigrant Mercers and Silk Workers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. A Note on Nomenclature and Money vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Paris, City of Immigrants 11
7. Chapter 2. From Persian Cocoon to Soie de Paris: Trade Networks and Silk Techniques 38
8. Chapter 3. Immigrant Mercers and Silk Workers 74
9. Chapter 4. Gender, Work, and the Parisian Silk Industry 106
10. Chapter 5. Jews, Foreign Lombards, and Parisian Silk Women 137
11. Conclusion 165
12. Appendix 1. Mediterranean Immigrants Paying Taxes as “Bourgeois of Paris” or Included on Parisian Guild Lists 173
13. Appendix 2. Mercers in the Parisian Tax Assessments, Arranged by Neighborhood 200
14. Appendix 3. Silk Weavers in the Parisian Tax Assessments 241
15. Appendix 4. Silk Throwsters in the Parisian Tax Assessments 256
16. Appendix 5. Ouvriers/Ouvrie`res de Soie in the Parisian Tax Assessments 266
17. Notes 281
18. Bibliography 327
19. Index 347
20. Acknowledgments 353