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Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Volume 6

By Robin Netherton

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Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Volume 6

By Robin Netherton

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This sixth volume of Medieval Clothing and Textiles ranges widely, as ever, across England and Europe. It presents two ground-breaking articles in novel areas of textile and dress scholarship: an introduction to a previously unexamined class of embroidery (decorative manuscript repair), and an English-language overview of scholarly research on historical dress in Latvia. Among the other topics considered in the volume are two very different listings of clothing items from medieval Germany: an invented lexicon by the mystic Hildegard of Bingen, and an accounting of specific real garments worn by ordinary people and donated to finance the building of Strasbourg Cathedral. Papers also consider the mercantile world of clothing in medieval London: one gathers insight on dealers of second-hand clothing from the evidence of historical documents, while the other examines the social rise of the mercers in the light of their representation in literature, and their connections to the literary world. Further articles consider luxurious dress accessories with both worldly and spiritual significance, and analyse a French manual for English housewives, illuminating the often-overlooked topic of home linen production.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2010-04-15
Publication Date:
2010-04-15
Publisher:
Boydell Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843835371
ISBN13:
9781843835370
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
713 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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