Inventories of Textiles - Textiles in Inventories

Gabi Schopf is a research assistant and PhD student at the University of Jena, Germany. Her PhD project investigates the trade of cotton textiles on a local as well as European level. She is mainly interested in eighteenth century trading practices, including advertising, mail ordering, travelling salesman and exchanging samples.

John Jordan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His current research interests lie in the history of consumption, especially that of global goods and textiles, in early modern Europe. Previously, he has worked on the intersection of law and society in early modern Germany, particularly as it pertains to disputes - their initiation, conduct, management, and (sometimes) resolution.