Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress Objects, Texts, Images

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ISBN: 9780230602359 | 0230602355
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Copyright: 12/15/2008

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This collection introduces the key methodologies and debates surrounding the study of the textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New viewpoints are brought to bear in the areas of archaeology, art and architecture, economics, law, history, literature, religion, and textile technology.

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Introduction-DFsirFe
The Early Middle Ages
Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul
From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artefactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period
Dressing the Part: Depictions of Noble Costume in Irish High Crosses
The Central Middle Ages
Marie de France's Bisclavret: What the Werewolf Will and Will Not Wear
From Content to Form: Court Clothing in Mid-Twelfth-Century Northern French Sculpture
Fashion in French Crusade Literature: Desiring Infidel Textiles
Heller Christ as A Windblown Sleeve: The Ambiguity of Clothing as Sign in Gottfried von Straburg's Tristan
Addressing the Law: Costume as Signifier in Medieval Legal Miniatures
The Late Middle Ages
From Battlefield to Court: The Invention of Fashion in the Fourteenth Century
Unraveling the Mystery of Jan van Eyck's Cloths of Honor: The Ghent Altarpiece
Marked Difference: Earrings and "the Other" in Fifteenth-Century Flemish Art
The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A Late Medieval Headdress and Gown in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
"As proud as a dog in a doublet": The Importance of Clothing in The Shoemaker's Holiday
Value-Added Stuffs and Shifts in Meaning: An Overview and a Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms
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