Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress Objects, Texts, Images

Name: Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress Objects, Texts, Images
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ISBN: 9780312293772

ISBN-10: 0312293771

ISBN-13: 9780312293772

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Desiree G. Koslin, Janet Snyder, Janet Snyder

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List price: $119.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2/6/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


Acknowledgments


Illustrations


Introduction




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 Artifactual 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 WerewolfWill 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




"Christ as a Windblown Sleeve": The Ambiguity of Clothing as Sign in Gottfried von Strassburg'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 Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms



Glossary


Contributors


Index