Encountering medieval textiles and dress : objects, texts, images / edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koslin, Désirée G., 1944-

Snyder, Janet E.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Costume.

Costume--History.

Textile fabrics, Medieval.

Clothing and dress in art.

Costume--Symbolic aspects.

Physical Description:

xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

This broad-reaching collection of essays constitutes a thorough introduction to the fields and methodologies concerned with studies of textiles and dress of the Middle Ages. New themes and critical viewpoints from many disciplines are brought to bear on the medieval material in the areas of archaeology, art and architecture, economics, law, history, literature, religion, and textile technology. The contributors address surviving objects and artifacts and interpret representations in texts and images. The articles extend in time from the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover Europe from Scandinavia, England, and Ireland in the north, to Italy and the Mediterranean basin in the south. Emphasis is placed on the significant role of trade and cultural exchanges as they impact appearance and its constituent materials.

Contents:

Part 1 The Early Middle Ages

1. Appearance and Ideology: Creating Distinctions between Clerics and Lay Persons in Early Medieval Gaul / Bonnie Effros 7

2. From Self-Sufficiency to Commerce: Structural and Artifactual Evidence for Textile Manufacture in Eastern England in the Pre-Conquest Period / Nina Crummy 25

3. Dressing the Part: Depictions of Noble Costume in Irish High Crosses / Margaret McEnchroe Williams 45

Part 2 The Central Middle Ages

4. Marie de France's Bisclavret: What the WerewolfWill and Will Not Wear / Gloria Thomas Gilmore 67

5. From Content to Form: Court Clothing in Mid-Twelfth

Century Northern French Sculpture / Janet Snyder 85

6. Fashion in French Crusade Literature: Desiring Infidel Textiles / Sarah-Grace Heller 103

7. "Christ as a Windblown Sleeve": The Ambiguity of Clothing as Sign in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan / Margarita Yanson 121

8. Addressing the Law: Costume as Signifier in Medieval Legal Miniatures / Susan L'Engle 137

Part 3 The Late Middle Ages

9. From Battlefield to Court: The Invention of Fashion in the Fourteenth Century / Odile Blanc 157

10. Unraveling the Mystery of Jan van Eyck's Cloths of Honor: The Ghent Altarpiece / Donna M. Cottrell 173

11. Marked Difference: Earrings and "The Other" in Fifteenth

Century Flemish Art / Penny Howell Jolly 195

12. The Margaret Fitzgerald Tomb Effigy: A Late Medieval Headdress and Gown in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett 209

13. "As proud as a dog in a doublet": The Importance of Clothing in The Shoemaker's Holiday / Linda Anderson 223

14. Value-Added Stuffs and Shifts in Meaning: An Overview and Case Study of Medieval Textile Paradigms / Desiree Koslin 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312293771

OCLC:

49395109