Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images

✍ Scribed by Désirée G. Koslin, Janet E. Snyder (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 270
Series: The New Middle Ages
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material culture, and literary criticism and explore materials from England, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. The collection focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress - their making, meaning, and representation - and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and LayPersons in Early Medieval Gaul....Pages 7-24
From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artifactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period....Pages 25-43
Dressing the Part: Depictions of Noble Costume in Irish High Crosses....Pages 45-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Marie de France’s Bisclavret: What the Werewolf Will and Will Not Wear....Pages 67-84
From Content to Form: Court Clothing in Mid-Twelfth-Century Northern French Sculpture....Pages 85-101
Fashion in French Crusade Literature: Desiring Infidel Textiles....Pages 103-119
“Christ as a Windblown Sleeve”: The Ambiguity of Clothing as Sign in Gottfried von Straßburg’s Tristan ....Pages 121-136
Addressing the Law: Costume as Signifier in Medieval Legal Miniatures....Pages 137-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
From Battlefield to Court: The Invention of Fashion in the Fourteenth Century....Pages 157-172
Unraveling the Mystery of Jan van Eyck’s Cloths of Honor: The Ghent Altarpiece....Pages 173-194
Marked Difference: Earrings and “The Other” in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art....Pages 195-207
The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A Late Medieval Headdress and Gown in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny....Pages 209-222
“As Proud as a Dog in a Doublet”: The Importance of Clothing in The Shoemaker’s Holiday ....Pages 223-231
Value-Added Stuffs and Shifts in Meaning: An Overview and Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms....Pages 233-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-270

✦ Subjects

European History; History of Medieval Europe; Sociology of Culture; Nature Conservation; Ancient History; Modern History

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