During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed - often to a degree of…mehr
During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds imported from great distances and at considerable risk to merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed - often to a degree of dazzling sophistication - between the years 800 to 1450. Beautifully illustrated with 90 images, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual representations, and literary representations.
Sarah-Grace Heller is Associate Professor at the Ohio State University, USA, specialising in French and Occitan medieval literature.
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List of Illustrations Introduction Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University USA) Chapter 1 - Textiles Elizabeth Coatsworth (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester UK) Chapter 2 - Production and Distribution Eva Andersson Strand (University of Copenhagen Denmark) and Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University USA) Chapter 3 - The Body Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva Switzerland) and Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva Switzerland) Chapter 4 - Belief Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California Riverside USA) Chapter 5 - Gender and Sexuality E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill USA) Chapter 6 - Status Laurel Ann Wilson (Fordham University USA) Chapter 7 - Ethnicity Michèle Hayeur Smith (Brown University USA) Chapter 8 - Visual Representations Désirée Koslin (Fashion Institute of Technology USA) Chapter 9 - Literary Representations Monica L. Wright (University of Louisiana at Lafayette USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Introduction Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University USA) Chapter 1 - Textiles Elizabeth Coatsworth (Manchester Metropolitan University UK) and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (University of Manchester UK) Chapter 2 - Production and Distribution Eva Andersson Strand (University of Copenhagen Denmark) and Sarah-Grace Heller (Ohio State University USA) Chapter 3 - The Body Guillemette Bolens (University of Geneva Switzerland) and Sarah Brazil (University of Geneva Switzerland) Chapter 4 - Belief Andrea Denny-Brown (University of California Riverside USA) Chapter 5 - Gender and Sexuality E. Jane Burns (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill USA) Chapter 6 - Status Laurel Ann Wilson (Fordham University USA) Chapter 7 - Ethnicity Michèle Hayeur Smith (Brown University USA) Chapter 8 - Visual Representations Désirée Koslin (Fashion Institute of Technology USA) Chapter 9 - Literary Representations Monica L. Wright (University of Louisiana at Lafayette USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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