Appel à contribution : « Exchanges, Mobility and Collaborations », Besançon, Université de Franche-Comté, 22 novembre 2024, date limite le 30 juin 2024
Silk has been approached in recent historiography as a material whose production and consumption played a crucial role in the formation of the modern world, notably due to the multiplicity and complexity of the exchanges this precious fibre gave rise to. The topic of Franco-Italian relations around silk brings us to explore the multi-faceted issues — socio-economic, political, environmental, artistic and cultural — that underlie these exchanges. These relations between two neighbouring spaces, among the...