Encountering medieval textiles and dress : objects, texts, images /

This broad-reaching collection of essays constitutes a thorough introduction to the fields and methodologies concerned with studies of textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New themes and critical viewpoints from many disciplines are brought to bear on the medieval material in the areas of archaeol...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: St. Martin's Press/Tor Archive (Brown University)
Other Authors: Koslin, Désirée G., 1944-, Snyder, Janet Ellen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
New York : 2002
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Desiree Koslin and Janet Snyder
  • 1 Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul / Bonnie Effros
  • 2. From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artifactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period / Nina Crummy
  • 3. Dressing the Part: Depictions of Noble Costume in Irish High Crosses / Margaret McEnchroe Williams
  • 4. Marie de France's Bisclavret: What the Werewolf Will and Will Not Wear / Gloria Thomas Gilmore
  • 5. From Content to Form: Court Clothing in Mid-Twelfth-Century Northern French Sculpture / Janet Snyder
  • 6. Fashion in French Crusade Literature: Desiring Infidel Textiles / Sarah-Grace Heller
  • 7. "Christ as a Windblown Sleeve": The Ambiguity of Clothing as Sign in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan / Margarita Yanson
  • 8. Addressing the Law: Costume as Signifier in Medieval Legal Miniatures / Susan L'Engle
  • 9. From Battlefield to Court: The Invention of Fashion in the Fourteenth Century / Odile Blanc
  • 10. Unraveling the Mystery of Jan van Eyck's Cloths of Honor: The Ghent Altarpiece / Donna M. Cottrell
  • 11. Marked Difference: Earrings and "The Other" in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art / Penny Howell Jolly
  • 12. The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A Late Medieval Headdress and Gown in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett
  • 13. "As proud as a dog in a doublet": The Importance of Clothing in The Shoemaker's Holiday / Linda Anderson
  • 14. Value-Added Stuffs and Shifts in Meaning: An Overview and Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms / Desiree Koslin.